Logos01 comments on The Bias You Didn't Expect - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Logos01 10 October 2011 02:49:22PM 0 points [-]

Then several passing applications can get through quickly at the beginning of a session, but most non-passing sessions would pass towards the end, or even right before a break if the judge insists on finishing the application before taking the break.

And further, of course, if this happens over enough sessions the statistical average would be similar to what we've had described. I'm not enough of a mathematician to be able to visualize the difference in the expected graphs though.