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Re:Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Caut... by klipt on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @11:49AM (#21649477)
That really depends on the distribution of said numbers. You're probably assuming uniform distribution, but there are power law distributions like wealth where the 26 richest people own as much as the bottom 3.8 billion combined.
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Re:Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Caut... by Yessing on Thursday November 28, 2019 @02:31PM (#21659649)
to be honest, I don't know much about probability.

but my intuition says that if you pick all variables from the same distribution, this should still hold.

At first, we don't know anything about the factors, so they are assigned a random importance. or am I missing something?

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