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Comment author: AspiringRationalist 08 July 2012 04:26:17AM 9 points [-]

While the result does seem quite intuitive in retrospect, that may be due to hindsight bias. It is also worth nothing that things that "everyone knows" are often wrong, so it is worth testing whether they are in fact true.