dbaupp comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Yvain 05 December 2011 10:49AM

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Comment author: dbaupp 06 December 2011 12:36:21AM 2 points [-]

Pearson correlation between number of siblings and not-being-a-firstborn for a population where family size is uniformly distributed on the integers from 1 to n [...] ~0.57 for n=1

I'm confused: does this make sense for n=1? (Your code suggests that that should be n=2, maybe?)

Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 06 December 2011 01:29:59AM *  0 points [-]

You're right, thanks; I had [also] made an off-by-one error.