CCC comments on Fermi Estimates - Less Wrong

51 Post author: lukeprog 11 April 2013 05:52PM

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Comment author: Kindly 12 May 2013 11:36:42PM 3 points [-]

If you want a range containing 70% of the samples, why wouldn't you just take the range between the 15th and 85th percentile values?

Comment author: CCC 14 May 2013 11:44:36AM 1 point [-]

That would also work, and probably be more accurate, but I suspect that it would take longer to find the 15th and 85th percentile values than it would to find the ends of the range.