Tilt and your brain. Part 1

[aejones]

Originally Posted by Efficent

"If something exists, it exists in some amount. If it exists in some amount, it can be measured." -Thorndike

then thordndike's a dumbass, measure my amount of love for pepperoni pizza, and do it with something besides stretching your arms out and going "this much"

[Efficent]

Originally Posted by aejones

then thordndike's a dumbass, measure my amount of love for pepperoni pizza, and do it with something besides stretching your arms out and going "this much"

How much money would you pay for a pepperoni pizza?

[Tickner]

Efficent, you define "unfocused" as not being able to solve a rubix cube in under 10 minutes. Isn't there some sort of intelligence related to solving a rubix cube? Obvioulsy a 3 year old could not solve a rubix cube but does this mean he is not focusing? Definitely not. It may be true that he isn't focusing on it because he is not smart enough to though.

[crunchi]

Originally Posted by MYNAMEIZGREG

Something concrete, like a number

Definition:

When i throw my keyboard > 3 times in an one hour period.

[aejones]

Originally Posted by Efficent

How much money would you pay for a pepperoni pizza?

depends where's it from?

[Efficent]

Originally Posted by Tickner

Efficent, you define "unfocused" as not being able to solve a rubix cube in under 10 minutes. Isn't there some sort of intelligence related to solving a rubix cube? Obvioulsy a 3 year old could not solve a rubix cube but does this mean he is not focusing? Definitely not. It may be true that he isn't focusing on it because he is not smart enough to though.

This definition would only be legit if you could solve the cube most of the time.

But you make a really good point because tilt isn't really ultimately about how well you are playing poker, its about how much worse are you playing poker.

Similarly we generally don't test intelligence in a vacuum, we compare one persons performance to the performance of everyone else of the same age.

Back to the cube, a better op definition might be if it takes you substantially more time to solve the puzzle than it would under optimal conditions.

[Efficent]

Originally Posted by crunchi

Definition:

When i throw my keyboard > 3 times in an one hour period.

This is definitely and operational definition. Do allot of people actually break their keyboards/mouse on a regular basis?

The first 3 times are standard?

[MYNAMEIZGREG]

I don't but maybe I should because instead I tilt off a buyin lol.

Efficent do you have any ideas of a good definition?

[crunchi]

Originally Posted by Efficent

This is definitely and operational definition. Do allot of people actually break their keyboards/mouse on a regular basis?

The first 3 times are standard?

Well it usually takes 3 doses of bad luck, bad beats or poorly played hands before I go on perma-tilt.

[Tickner]

The way I would mathematically define tilt would be:

Let X represent the amount we would win in a session playing optimally
Let Y represent the amount we actually won in a session

If X > Y we are tilting in some form

But quantifying X would be very very hard and pretty much impossible