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 Post subject: "Differential" .........
PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:49 pm 
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.... is not the same as "difference" yet sadly persists in the lexicon of sports talk.
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There's a lot to unpack here. Bad optics.
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RockyBarufi wrote:
.... is not the same as "difference" yet sadly persists in the lexicon of sports talk.


Once people started talking about "the calculus" of this and that, it was only a matter of time before they would co-opt actual calculus terms.

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"Differential" is more accurate than "difference" when discussing sporting statistics.

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