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Re:Worstsort by benj111 on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:34PM (#19415986)
"The chance you finish within a week is higher than the chance you finish within a day, but your chance is no higher after a day than before it."

You seem to be ignoring the fact you've just been spending a day rolling die, where if you had have rolled a 6 you wouldn't be back the next day.

That's survivorship bias.

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Re:Worstsort by daveFNbuck on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:22PM (#19422458)
I never said you couldn't eventually win. We're talking about whether you make progress leading up to the win. You could win at any time, but you never get closer to winning. If you had a progress bar based on how long left until you win, it wouldn't move until the moment you won.
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