Before leaving representativeness, let us consider one more example showing that although financial professionals may recognize regression to the mean, they not apply it properly. Below is an excerpt from an interview that appeared in the August 18, 1997 issue of Fortune magazine, with global strategist Barton Biggs of Morgan Stanley and senior investment adviser Robert Farrell of Merrill Lynch (Armour, 1997). This interview occurred after two-and-one-half years of spectacular stock market returns. I have divided the excerpt into two parts. The first part sets the stage for a discussion about regression to the mean, and also for an issue that comes up in chapter 5 (on skewed confidence intervals). Here is the first part of the excerpt: