Measuring the Slight Differences

Not everyone it seems has an overwhelming interest in watching various people from many countries around the world each attempting to do something just slightly faster or in some other measurable way slightly better than some other people from other parts of the world, often to little or no purpose other than the act itself.

However, for people who find such slight – if measurable – differences between the varying abilities of people who are often complete and utter strangers to them somehow compelling, there will be a chance to watch such contests soon in London, and elsewhere, during the summer of 2012.

Most people will – it seems – find it enough to watch these contests of minuscule differences on the TV, when those differences will be analysed in great detail by many people who find those differences both significant and of great import, some of whom make quite a good living analysing the slight differences between the various contenders competing for the medal that proves they are slightly better at whatever it is than those who are also quite good at doing it.

However, there will also be a – seemingly now very slim - chance for such ordinary people who find these slight differences compelling to go and witness these momentous slight differences in all their glory live and in person, possibly even feeling that such occasions offer a once in a lifetime chance to be a witness to such slight and marginal differences in measurable abilities.

Of course, to measure these slight differences in these abilities to do something or other slightly better than the rest of the people with similar abilities, a large stadium complex has been constructed. This is apparently necessary so that these differing abilities can be measured to the degree of accuracy necessary to prove that one of the contestants is – indeed – slightly better than the rest at whatever is being measured. While at the same time providing the facilities for those who wish to witness these measuring events to be able to see these momentous events taking place in front of their own eyes.

So, if such marginal differences in abilities between people who are quite good at doing certain things, usually of no real intrinsic import or merit, are the sorts of thing that you find yourself interested in then – no doubt – you will find the whole thing quite interesting.