"Ordering at the bridge" is not a
question of probability, or what
you will turn up on 50 hands on
the "Euchre Lab," or whether 50
hands is "statistically significant."
It's a question of whether you want
to stay in the game or not.

It's like Jeff said about Tony
LaRussa's decision to walk Barry
Bonds with the bases loaded. He
wasn't going to give Bonds the
chance to beat him.

By the way, "criteria" ARE, not
"is." "Criteria" is the plural of
"criterion" (as "data" is the plural
of "datum").