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Re:A Failure of Academic Quality Control [pdf] by PAClearner on Monday September 03, 2018 @06:10PM (#17905202)
maybe i am just tired right now but "average of sums is equal to the sum of averages"

is basically true 100% of the time-it is called the linearity of expectation and is a basic fact of probability.

Could you include the papers or provide a more detailed comment?

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Re:A Failure of Academic Quality Control [pdf] by Analemma_ on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:35AM (#17906675)
Sorry for the confusion, I attempted to simplify the issue for the sake of clarity but apparently only made it worse. You can get a more rigorous explanation of the problem here: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0408191
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