cousin_it comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 06 July 2010 02:18:47PM *  0 points [-]

Intuitively, I'd say that a die biased towards 1 and 6 makes hitting the mean (with some given precision) less likely than a die biased towards 3 and 4, because it spreads out the distribution wider. But you don't have to take my word for it, see the linked paper for calculations.

Comment author: Kingreaper 06 July 2010 02:34:14PM *  0 points [-]

Ahk, brainfart, it DOES depend on accuracy. I was thinking of it as so heavily biased that the other results don't come up, and having perfect accuracy (rather than rounded to: what?)

Sorry, please vote down my previous post slightly (negative reinforcement for reacting too fast)

Hopefully I'll find information about the rounding in the paper.