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#1 2009-07-16 04:15:41

soroban
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Find the flaw

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#2 2009-07-16 05:21:20

JaneFairfax
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Re: Find the flaw

soroban wrote:


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#3 2009-07-16 05:45:37

mathsyperson
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Re: Find the flaw

JaneFairfax wrote:

True, but that's not the main problem.
After your fix, we still have that P(B) = 2/3, so the "conclusion" still holds.


Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.

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#4 2009-07-16 06:36:46

JaneFairfax
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Re: Find the flaw

I don’t see what the problem is, really (if not the minor one I pointed out). If you have two Black balls and one White ball in the bag, the probability of picking a Black ball is ⅔. If you have one Black ball and two other balls that can be either colour, the probability of picking a Black ball is also ⅔. There is nothing wrong with the probabilities of two different scenarios happening to be the same.

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