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Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:25 Michael Mauboussin I got this idea from Stephen Jay Gould in his book called full house from the mid-nineteen nineties.
- ▶ 1:02:56 Michael Mauboussin In fact, you know, that this is how the whole thing got going was Steven Jay Gould wrote about Ted Williams, who hit four Oh six in 1941, that very magical year.
- ▶ 1:10:20 Michael Mauboussin And this is another Stephen Jay Gould from the same book where he says extraordinary streaks are a combination of skill and luck, right?
- ▶ 1:12:53 Michael Mauboussin That's how I picked up on the Gould thing.
- ▶ 1:12:54 Michael Mauboussin So Gould showed that the reason there have been no 400 hitters is precisely because the standard deviation of batting average has gone down over time, right?