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Originally Posted by ChaosTheory
People also often don't take into consideration the butterfly effect.
If you lose by 2pts... People point to that first quarter field goal miss as the reason you lost.
When really, if you made the field goal, all subsequent series of events would be different. You actually could've lost the game by 14pts had you made the field goal. Or you could've won by 10pts. We don't know.
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I find this a particularly compelling argument when made by a poster calling himself "ChaosTheory".
Dr. Ian Malcolm would approve.