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by lupire 859 days ago
Concentration of mass is density. A shell is not dense.

If I am looking for a needle in a hyperhaystack, it's not important to know that it's more likely to be "somewhere on the huge hyperboundary" than "in the center hypercubic inch".

2 comments

Disagree:

A lot of why large corporations fail to make products that people enjoy is tied up in this behavior and that mass is not independently distributed along each distribution — you end up with “continents of taste” your centroid product sucks for equally.

This is similar to how they originally tried to build fighter jet seats for the average pilot, but it failed because it turned out there were no average pilots, so they had to make them adjustable.
And yet your parent comment was right in saying that it won't be true that "a lot of the probability mass - an amount that is not small - will be concentrated" in the center hypercubic inch.