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How easy is it to win a world particular world record by such a commanding margin past a cluster of runners-up? Easier than pulling the wool over a town's worth of people's eyes?


Usain Bolt and Magnus Carlsen have both better than #2 by more than the gap between #2 and #10. Of course, there are allegations that Bolt may not be competing fairly.


Don Bradman in Test cricket. His career average was 99.94. Next best is 61.87, and there are over 17 other guys over 55.00.


There are I guess fewer than 10,000 Test cricketers. It's a low n compared to the entire human population.

Furthermore, the population of cricketers is not sampled randomly, but by selectors




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