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Comment by kqr

6 months ago

Too late to edit, but I felt there was something wrong with this comment and I figured out what: the Cantelli bound is 1/(1+k²).

This means as little as 50% can be less than one standard deviation, as little as 80% below two standard deviations, etc.

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