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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Two forms of procrastination - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 17 July 2016 05:21:45PM *  0 points [-]

I think you can't estimate the amount of web surfing. This is a bit tongue in cheek but a naive modelling of web surfing as a process that that leads to more surfing (links leading to links) leads to a heavy tailed distribution and that has a variance of infinity and thus a low mean doesn't mean much (ahem).

Maybe this is behind the feeling that it takes a short time...