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Comment author: steven0461 17 April 2012 12:00:10AM 3 points [-]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance#Sum_of_uncorrelated_variables_.28Bienaym.C3.A9_formula.29

(Of course, any systematic bias stays the same no matter how big you make the sample.)

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