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by coldtea 4131 days ago
>Science doesn't give a shit about your expectations.

Language.

Also, I didn't say it's about "MY" expectations. It's about what the expected distribution is, which is the whole context that makes something big or small.

"Expectations" are entirely irrelevant to whether a number is big or little.

Actually, it's all about that. Bringing 10,000 times 6 by throwing dice 20,000 times is too big, because the expected outcome is about 1/6 throws to be 6.