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Benquo comments on The Fallacy of Large Numbers - Less Wrong Discussion

20 Post author: dspeyer 12 August 2012 06:39PM

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Comment author: Benquo 13 August 2012 05:16:36PM 1 point [-]

Right, but the mathematical meaning of the word "trial" is a little more general, in the sense that even if you pick the sample all at once, you can consider each member of the sample a "trial".