Guh. I encountered this so much on an investment site that I wrote a blog post about the Law of Large Numbers because it was annoying me enough that I wanted to have a shorthand link. http://confounding.net/2012/03/12/thats-not-how-the-law-of-l...

I equally hated "Well, it means something different in this field." No it doesn't, it's math. That's the whole point.