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One of the things I've found far more often than makes sense, is that many paraphrases also change the statement they are paraphrasing. The article goes out of
by taeric 2y ago
One of the things I've found far more often than makes sense, is that many paraphrases also change the statement they are paraphrasing.
The article goes out of its way to call out that sampling the average experience of students. This was obviously different in class sizes. Since there are more students than there are classes, it makes sense that the average size of classes that a student attends is different than the average size of classes offered. It isn't that people are giving you two different answers, they are answering two different questions.
Also, the article specifically says the waiting time paradox makes a stronger claim that the average will tend specifically to 2N. "But the waiting time paradox makes a stronger claim than this: when the average span between arrivals is N minutes, the average span experienced by riders is 2N minutes. Could this possibly be true?" I'm trying to explore/understand how that works out.
- marcosdumay 2y agoOh, right. I was focused on the progression, I didn't notice you were talking about a factor of 2 that I forgot there.