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Originally Posted by Overlay
To me, that question can be answered with equal validity either purely through subjective judgment and experience/memory, or through quantitative analysis (numbers), coupled with probabilities associated with those numbers and their patterns, and with a horse's ranking in comparison to its competitors, all of which a computer can calculate and manipulate, without the need for subjective input (other than whatever opinion and judgment may have gone into the formulation of the basic numbers/figures themselves).
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Also, in my opinion, a computer has the advantage of being able to perform a comparatively larger volume of calculations at higher speed, and with greater accuracy and consistency from one race to the next.