cousin_it comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong
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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.
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.