Mark_Eichenlaub comments on Original Research on Less Wrong - Less Wrong

21 Post author: lukeprog 29 October 2012 10:50PM

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Comment author: Mark_Eichenlaub 31 October 2012 12:42:26PM *  1 point [-]

You're right. That would be true if we did n independent tests, not one test with n-times the subjects.

e.g. probability of 60 or more heads in 100 tosses = .028

probability of 120 or more heads in 200 tosses = .0028

but .028^2 = .00081

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 October 2012 02:47:21PM 4 points [-]

Amazing, innit? Meanwhile in the land of the sane people, the likelihood function from any given propensity to come up heads, to the observed data, is exactly squared for 120 in 200 vs. 60 in 100.