Years ago, our firm employed a junior investment analyst who left us for supposedly greener pastures. In his exit interview, he told me he was leaving in part because he was great at picking ...

CEO of Paul M. Wendee & Associates, LLC; Publisher of the Intrinsic Value Wealth Report Newsletter; Founder of the Value Driver Institute. In my opinion, reversion to the mean is one of the most ...

Sir Francis Galton coined the term “regression to the mean” — or “regression towards mediocrity,” as he originally called it, sometimes also called “reversion to the mean.” It is now a widely used ...

Regression to the mean has the potential to fool everyone, even NBA coaches building systems of positive and negative reinforcement. These are challenging times, but one thing I’ve enjoyed about ...

In the late 19th century, English polymath Sir Francis Galton noted that tall parents often had kids shorter than they were, while short parents often ended up with taller kids. He dubbed this ...