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The Law of Large Numbers is an actual math theorem. The Law of Averages is a non-technical name for various informal reasoning strategies, some fallacious (like the gamblers fallacy), but mostly just types of estimation that are justified by more formal probability theory.


More generally, see "concentration of measure".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_measure




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