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by alive2007 3780 days ago
Minor question; is it just me or is the "Results of Interview Simulations by Mean Score" a bit difficult to parse? I understand that observing the behavior of any singular cohort involves looking at the endpoints of the cohort's curve at the horizontal line 'x=n', where n is number of simulations you wish to observe (the right point of the curve at x=n is P(fail) of the worst performer in the cohort at n simulations, the left point of the curve at x=n is the P(fail) of the best performer); which is why the gap between endpoints within a singular cohort decreases as n increases. But it seems kind of counterintuitive to observe any other kind of trend -- shouldn't the information be graphed as P(fail) being a function of # of simulations, as opposed to the other way around, seeing as the latter is the independent variable?