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The author left out my favorite example: that you are mathematically more likely to be the slow line at the grocery store (or the slow lane on the highway). It’
by wanderingstan 2y ago
The author left out my favorite example: that you are mathematically more likely to be the slow line at the grocery store (or the slow lane on the highway). It’s not just bad luck!
> you actually are, on the average, in the slower lane, because slow lanes are (on average) the ones that have more vehicles in. So you are more likely to be in these lanes than in the faster moving ones which more vehicles are in.
https://leightonvw.com/2019/04/04/the-slower-lane-paradox-in-a-nutshell/ https://leightonvw.com/2019/04/04/the-slower-lane-paradox-in...
- hassleblad23 2y agoWow. This is such a fascinating insight. Obvious in hindsight but never occurred to me.
- 325 2y ago> In particular, cars travelling at greater speeds are normally more spread out than slower cars, so that over a given stretch of road there are likely to be more cars in the slower lane How many cars pass a sign over an hour-long period? It should be equal to speed (miles/hour) X density (cars/mile) (say that speed and density are constant over the hour) So more cars in the fast lane will pass that sign than cars in the slow lane will over the hour if speed (fast) / speed (slow) > density (slow) / density (fast)