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by kqr
1480 days ago
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At first I was confused because of my mental rule of thumb that in a Bernoulli choice, p=0.5 is highest variance. But that is when the payoff is 1, of course! When it's not, we're really looking at payoff² * p * (1-p) and indeed the second situation has much higher variance. |
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