The Law of Small Numbers: Tversky and Kahneman’s 1971 Warning That Small Samples Exaggerate, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Should Distrust Short Track Records

The Law of Small Numbers cover: observed averages of a fair coin scattering widely at small sample sizes and converging inside a square-root envelope as samples grow

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