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Comment by nyc111

> When waiting for a bus that comes on average every 10 minutes, your average waiting time will be 10 minutes.

This is very ambiguous. Unless he gives a time frame the numbers do not make sense. Average in a week? Average in a year? This is not how it works in real life.

And I cannot accept his premise. My experience tells me that, in New York, when I used to take a bus to work, sometimes the bus was coming as I was walking to the stop; sometimes I would wait a long time. Sometimes not very long. There was no observable bias.

parent nyc111 8 years ago

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