The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
This
explanation gets my vote. Now, if I could just forget what I read on the label, I could repeat it
next time.
REGRESSION TOWARD THE MEAN
REGRESSION TOWARD THE MEAN
Imagine you catch a cold or get the u. It's going to get worse and worse, then better and better
until you are back to normal. The severity of symptoms, as is true with many injuries, will look
something like a bell curve.
The bottom at line, representing normalcy, is the mean. When are you most likely to try the
quackiest shit you can get your hands on? That miracle duck extract Aunt Susie swears by when
not talking about crystals? Naturally, when your symptoms are the worst and nothing seems to
help. This is the very top of the bell curve, at the peak of the roller coaster before you head
back down. Naturally heading back down is regression toward the mean.
If you are a fallible human, as we all are, you might misattribute getting better to the duck
extract, but it was just coincidental timing