Thrasymachus comments on Why the tails come apart - Less Wrong

114 Post author: Thrasymachus 01 August 2014 10:41PM

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Comment author: ShardPhoenix 27 July 2014 01:07:38AM *  28 points [-]

So in other words, it's not that the strongest can't also be the tallest (etc), but that someone getting that lucky twice more or less never happens. And if you need multiple factors to be good at something, getting pretty lucky on several factors is more likely than getting extremely lucky on one and pretty lucky on the rest.

I enjoyed this post - very clear.

Comment author: Thrasymachus 02 August 2014 02:08:09AM 6 points [-]

^^ but not, alas, as clear as your one paragraph summary! Thanks!