Misha comments on Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 December 2010 05:00:07AM 0 points [-]

Say X and Y are two independent random variables. X is correlated to X+Y is correlated to Y, but X and Y are (by hypothesis!) not correlated.