Originally Posted by
smokin_hornet
"China has 1 gold medal for every 50,000,000 people. The U.S. has 1 gold for every 21,000,000 people. Australia, on the other hand, has 1 gold medal for every 5,000,000."
Not a very good stratagist are you. With your analogy, you imply the greater the population the better the odds at winning a gold medal? Gee, you must have went to business school.
That isn't what he's implying at all?
He's saying that, given China's population, and the law of averages, the number of gold medals they've won so far isn't all the impressive, compared to other countries who have won more gold medals
per capita.
I mean, to use an extreme example, if there were only two countries on this planet, one of which contained 90% of the population, the other, 10%, would it really be all that impressive if the former country won 70% of the gold medals in their weirdo two-country olympics?