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by lambdasquirrel 3914 days ago
Actually, I'm pretty sure it proves he's right. In these distributions, the percentages matter a lot. I think the mentioned figures were upwards of 50% for startups in the 1-2 Billion valuation range? That's a fairly nontrivial difference from the expected 30%.

Is there a real stats person around here? I bet that if you plugged in the numbers into the formulas in "Statistical Tests" in the link that you gave, it would pretty much show that Sam is right. When I punched in the numbers and ran the Chi-Square test, it seemed kind of off. :P

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoSfPvRSLK04ySAfjEqE...