James O'Shaughnessy

Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.

American Businessman

John Burroughs

Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.

American Author

John Hull

Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion.

Mathematician

Barry Ritholtz

Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.

Joy Reid

The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics.

American Journalist

Eugene Ionesco

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

French Dramatist

David Ignatius

American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Often implies a setback or loss of progress, usually seen as undesirable.

Negative Connotation

Don't assume 'reversion' means progress or improvement; it usually means the opposite.

Avoid Progress Implication

Can refer to shifts in societal behavior or trends going back to previous norms.

Cultural Shifts

In legal context, 'reversion' has a precise meaning tied to property rights.

Legal Specificity

Doesn't mean getting property back immediately, but upon a condition's completion, like a lease end.

Not Referring to Time

Used in biology to describe a precise process of organisms or cells

Scientific Context

Doesn't suggest improvement, often it's a return to less advanced states.

No Improvement Hint

Refers to financial trends where prices or values return to a long-term average.

Economic Movement

Sometimes used as a basis for investing, under the belief that prices will reset to their average.

Investment Strategy

 If they break it, they will break it for everybody. That's the easy thing. That's the simple thing. The hard thing is get ready, because more is coming. SOPA is simply a reversion of COICA, which was purposed last year, which did not pass.

Defend our freedom to...

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Reversion