Manuscript Psy04-A@1 · Psy04-A-v1.tex · example · d5800e2a

Example: Postselection can manufacture apparent perfect success

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Store $X_{1}$ , answer query 1, and erase query 2. The observed-answer success is one. The complete score is nevertheless

\frac{1}{2} \cdot 1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{2} = \frac{3}{4} .

Discarding the erased runs changes the estimand.

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$\frac{1}{2} \cdot 1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{2} = \frac{3}{4} .$