Regarding “Letter writer, not mock trial organizers, showed no grace” May 19: unfortunately, Larry Bakko, the decision support system coordinator for the National High School Mock Trial Championship NHSMTC, continues to blow a combination of statistical fallacies, lies, and canards to impugn the performance of the Sabbath-observing high school team from Massachusetts rather than graciously conceding a successful accommodation welcomed by the vast majority of students, coaches and observers.
As a Harvard Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, I am shocked by Mr. Bakko’s stunning lack of knowledge of elementary statistics. In the following analysis, it is important to note that Massachusetts was one round ahead of the other teams due to the Sabbath accommodation.
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