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  • Responsibility

    Responsibility

    Responsibility doesn’t really exist. Responsibility is an abstract concept. Yet, unlike some other often used concepts, responsibility is very useful. Because responsibility doesn’t really exist, in reality you can’t have it. Nevertheless, even though you never really have responsibility, either for your own actions, events you are mixed up in or the actions of others,…

  • Result

    Result

    Any match where a single goal would have changed the final outcome probably has a larger than average luck factor. All draws are quite lucky in this sense. Of course it could be the case that a draw had very little luck involved. Or that a team won 1-0 and never got into any danger.…

  • Ruin

    Ruin

    Within statistics the problem of ruin is well known. Imagine that one in twenty plays in a casino lead to financial ruin, i.e. you lose everything you have. That would mean that if twenty people play one night, one of them would probably be financially ruined. Or, to make matters worse, if you play for…