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Leader, When CallMeIshmael did the previous study it was thought to be some great work by many ,

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There are a lot more things people think are great in the world then great things. I applaud CMI's effort but is method is badly flawed.

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go look at it,

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I did so again. My opinion hasn't changed.

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it makes a lot of sense. I am not a statistician,

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I have two semesters of college level statistics and am currently working in a paid research position which will produce a publishable academic paper on survey methodology and coverage bias. So let's say I got you by a nose.

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maybe it is not enough hands but it was a starting point.

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So is picking a random number between 1 and 100 and making that your VPiP. Is CMI method better? Sure. Is it even relatively accurate? Not IMO.

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Almost everyone who uses PT wants to know what others results are

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They shouldn't. Besides they'll just find what they want to find. If they think a given strategy is valid they'll accept the data when it shows a profit and chalk the result up to variance otherwise. And vis versa.

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and that's why we see people asking for advice after 1k, 2.5k, 10k hands, give them some reference.

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The correct reference is a statistics text.