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thaumasiotes
on March 5, 2020
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Relating natural language aptitude to differences ...
Is "approximately 3.5" the answer to "which number will come up when I roll this 6-sided die once?"?
geomark
on March 5, 2020
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The Expected value would be
exactly
3.5 (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value#Finite_case
). But isn't the question malformed since for a single role only one of the discrete values can come up?
thaumasiotes
on March 5, 2020
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How is "which number will come up when I roll this die?" better or worse posed than "how many even numbers will come up when I roll this die several times?"?
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