Tribes function

A tribes function is an OR of AND blocks: partition $mw$ coordinates into $m$ blocks of size $w$, and let $f=1$ when at least one block consists entirely of ones. For independent random variables with each bit uniform, $\mathbb{P}(f=0)=(1-2^{-w}{)}^m$. The influence of a variable is $2^{-(w-1)}(1-2^{-w}{)}^{m-1}$, because every other bit in its block must be one and every other block must fail. Taking $m$ approximately $(\log 2)2^w$ keeps both output probabilities bounded away from zero and gives influences of order $\log (mw)/(mw)$. This shows the order in the Kahn-Kalai-Linial theorem is sharp.

Choose $w\ge 1$ maximal such that $wm\le n$ for the displayed $m$, and take the OR of $m$ AND blocks of size $w$, ignoring unused coordinates. Its failure probability is $(1-2^{-w}{)}^m$, between one quarter and three quarters. Active coordinates have influence $2^{1-w}(1-2^{-w}{)}^{m-1}$ and unused ones have zero influence. Maximality gives $2^{1-w}<4(\log 2)(w+1)/n$; for $n\ge 2$, $w\le {\log }_{2}n$, so every influence is below $8\log n/n$. The construction is therefore a quite fair Boolean function with small influences for every $n\ge 2$. The logarithmic bound cannot hold at $n=1$, where every quite fair function has influence one.

For $m$ tribes of size $w$ with $m\sim (\log 2)2^w$ and $n=mw$, the success probability under the p-biased product measure is $1-(1-p^w{)}^m$. Its $x$-quantile is $p_x=[1-(1-x{)}^{1/m}{]}^{1/w}$. For fixed $0<x<1$,Thus the fixed-error window has order $1/\log n$. For small fixed error the leading coefficient grows with $\log (1/\epsilon )$, so the general Friedgut-Kalai sharp threshold theorem also has the correct error dependence up to absolute constants.