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Comment by clarle

Wouldn't asking humans have this same kind of problem too?

If you asked a set of humans to generate a random distribution of heads or tails from coin flips, it wouldn't be similar to a real world distribution of coin flips either because we also have our own biases. [1]

[1] "Heads or tails?"--a reachability bias in binary choice" - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24773285/

parent clarle 29 days ago

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