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Kindly 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: Kindly 15 August 2012 01:49:08PM 3 points [-]

For that matter, if you're 90% sure you're going to take the flight (which seems reasonable, considering there's not too many overbooked tickets), you still save money (in expectation) buying the ticket early, since tickets bought far in advance are cheaper.

So maybe it's the better calibrated customers who book flights they might not need.