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Comment by kgwgk

3 months ago

> Sure, it's unintuitive that I shouldn't go all in on the smallest variance choice.

Is it?

You have ten estimates of some distance with similar accuracy of the order of 10m : you take the average (and reduce the error by more than half).

If you increase the precision of one measure by 1% you will disregard all the others?

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