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Kinda depends on what you mean by "business decisions". Repetition can bring in a high need for confidence. You don't want to have your life depend on a piece of equipment that has a one in a million chance of failure if it gets tested a thousand times an hour. Pricing things can also need a lot of certainty, like in HFT. But most things aren't either of those cases and people are commonly off by an order of magnitude.



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