As always, World Cup games produced discrepancies between performance statistics and
the actual outcome of matches.
Not exact matches
«It would be interesting to see whether production
of androstadienone is affected by the
outcome of an
actual competition,» he writes, «such as a sports
match.»
However, Bujalski is not concerned with the
outcome of the chess
match, or the convention, or
actual conclusions
of any kind.
But personally, I remain comfortable with the logic
of my decision to choose VOF (over VEIL & VNH) as a slightly more defensive / appropriate fund for a frontier market — the index
outcome & relative performances could obviously have been very different under an alternative scenario — in the end, I didn't pick / achieve the
actual best - performing fund, but I did
match the index (and +118 % is an excellent consolation prize!).
Yet, anecdotal information aside, there are very, very few studies
of the internal operation
of such panels (LaMont 2010), and for evaluating the effectiveness
of IPCC's approach, the community has only the very limited literature
matching its projections over the past 20 years to
actual climate
outcomes (Rahmstorf et al. 2007; Pielke 2008).