Manfred comments on Right for the Wrong Reasons - Less Wrong

14 Post author: katydee 24 January 2013 12:02AM

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Comment author: Manfred 24 January 2013 05:18:28PM 2 points [-]

Seeing something like someone with 14 points lose on the last point should actually drive your probability closer to 1/2 of winning a 1v1. That is, you can't just discount it. You just have to take into account all the stuff you learned when, er, learning things.