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by huherto 4572 days ago
I am not a mathematician, but I think the law of large numbers is not applied like that.
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I am a mathematician, and the Law of Large Numbers just says that if you roll a die many times, then the average of your rolls will converge to the expected value, in some strong way.

I think he is just applying Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap), and then and then the law of large numbers to conclude that the average video is crappy.

Probably got his knowledge from watching a TED talk on the subject...