army1987 comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 May 2013 11:21:06AM *  0 points [-]

But then again, more of the people I meet are female than male; I guess those two effects roughly cancel out. Trying to remember when the last few times I met five males in a row were seems to confirm that the number is roughly in the right ballpark. (OTOH, the probability that none of the next five people I met is a man probably is a few times larger than the naive binomial model would predict.)