Re: Investing

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 03:11:50 MDT

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
>> ### Specifically, if the distribution of gains is not the normal curve
>> (the
>> function of the number of traders plotted against the gains they
>> make), but
>> shows a skew, or a secondary peak, this would be strong evidence for the
>> existence of traders who really know better than others.
>
> Normal or Pareto?

Hm... on further reflection, shouldn't it be log-normal?

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
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