| - by John Allen Paulos, Washington Post• - by Richard York and Brett Clark, Monthly Review• - by David Papineau, New York Times• The complexity distribution is bounded at one side a living organism cannot be much simpler than bacteria , so an unbiased by evolution, sometimes going in the complexity direction and sometimes going towards simplicity without having an intrinsic preference to either , will create a distribution with a small, but longer and longer tail at the high complexity end | - by Michael Shermer, Los Angeles Times• - by Jeremy Manier, Chicago Tribune• G6593 1996 Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin is a 1996 book by |
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| , "bacteria, fern, dinosaurs, dog, man" | The book focuses on two main examples of this misconception: the disappearance of the 0 |
- by Michael Shermer, Los Angeles Times• He explains that by any measure, the most common organisms have always been, and still are, the bacteria.
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| Summary [ ] Full House aims to explain to the general reader how misconceptions about statistics can lead people to misunderstand the role variation plays in driving trends in complex systems | Quite the contrary: he shows that all that has happened is that the of the batting average decreased as professional baseball got better and better, while the league average remained constant as the game rules changed—together causing the extreme value of the distribution—the best batting average—to decrease as well |
- by Luis Rocha, Cybernetics and Human Knowing• 400 in baseball, and the perceived tendency of towards "progress" making organisms more complex and sophisticated.
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