daedalus2u comments on Fight Zero-Sum Bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: daedalus2u 19 July 2010 11:12:13AM 1 point [-]

Jonathan, you are discribing a situation that never happened. The gender ratio is about 1:1. The average number of children is 2 because a different number than 2 results in numbers of humans we know did not happen.

If one man had 100,000, then 49,999 men would have to have zero to make the averate equal to 2.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 19 July 2010 06:40:26PM 0 points [-]

Thus "if".