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Protagoras comments on binomial variance problem - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: nerfhammer 06 April 2012 10:59PM

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Comment author: Protagoras 08 April 2012 12:55:40AM -1 points [-]

It looks like I approached the problem in exactly the same way you did. I'm very curious as to how common it is for people to think A is more likely; it really doesn't seem obvious to me either.

Comment author: nerfhammer 08 April 2012 03:10:48AM 0 points [-]

75% choose program A