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From: Jay.Croft@p0.f147.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Jay Croft)
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Subject: Re: Multiple Uses Of Sign
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Most athletic "conferences" are made up of schools of similar size.
Thus you don't see a football team from a school of 500 students play
against a school enrolling 3,000 students.

Let's say that you need 15 players, including second-string, for a
basketball team.  In a residential school with 100 students, there is
a 15 out of 50 chance (assuming the number of boys and girls are equal,
and that there are separate teams).  This is about a one-in-three chance
of being chosen to participate in varsity sports.

A 3,000 student high school, with 1,500 boys, gives a student one-in-100
chance of making varsity.  Those 15 Chosen Ones are the most talented
and strongest and, for basketball, the tallest.  A deaf kid in a large
school has as much chance as being chosen as any other kid--but it's
still one in a hundred, versus one in three in a small residential
school.

It's simple mathematics.

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