Wait! He's only half that: hmmm, the math seems to support your thesis! And there's the whole symbolism of X and O, as in
...which of course signifies that everything they stand for is a game that adds up to nothing.
XOX
OXO
XOO
Something to do with “regression to the mean” perhaps, like when black boys from relatively wealthy families still get lower SAT scores and have higher crime rates than their white counterparts, or even whites from less-wealthy families. I read some interesting results from a study including Prince George Co regarding that.