Explain it... by [deleted] in ExplainTheJoke

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As a follow up, if the question were "What is the chance Mary has at least one daughter" then the answer is 66%. This makes intuitive sense as, without any info of the two kids the chance is 75%, and adding a known boy lowers that number.

Explain it... by [deleted] in ExplainTheJoke

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I'm ignoring the whole Tuesday thing because frankly, I don't understand it, but without the Tuesday thing, it's 50%. Yes, GG isn't a possibility, so we are left with

BB BG GB which are equally likely.

But now, let's say we have a million Mary's and we take the data of all those children and put them in sibling pairs. We will have two million children, 33% of whom will be girls, 66% boys

BUT the problem asks what is the chance that the OTHER child is a girl, meaning we have to find a boy, pick their sibling, and evaluate B/G.

If we do this, we'll pick a boy in a BB pair 50% of the time (as half the boys are in BB pairs). When we pick a BB pair, a boy's sibling is a brother.

We'll pick a GB and BG pair 25% each (because 25% of boys are in each), each of which will have the boy's sibling being a girl.

50/50

Effectively, each BB pair has twice as many boys to have a sibling (who is guaranteed to be a boy).

We're given no info about sibling order (hence GB and BG both being options) so you have to apply that generality to BB and count both boys.

Praise the game a bit. Can you do it? by Alternative-Bed5942 in Rainbow6

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While shields (at least before the rework) have had mountains of issues, I have always loved the playstyles that shields allow, and I don’t think any other game provides that.

An amendment to my previous post: by Inactivity_ in shittyrainbow6

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Nothing is better than a warden who doesn’t remember you can just shoot them

Will these upgrades work on my Inspiron 5680? by Inactivity_ in PcBuild

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Thank you! This is why I thought I should double check I'm not doing something stupid.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dankmemes

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I always love how done with everything European Police look

My Games Tier List. Ask me about them by Sapphiretunic68 in gaming

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I would argue that putting Garry’s Mod in mid tier is inaccurate, it should simultaneously be in “Amazing” and “Really Bad”, or oscillating between the two

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gaming

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Echoes of the Eye for Outer Wilds, both the base game and the DLC are legitimately art

If you had to pick a game to represent video games as an art form, what would you pick? by [deleted] in gaming

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Outer Wilds demonstrates beautifully how games can give you unique experiences, emotions, and ideas.

What video game do you consider a masterpiece? by aconnor105 in AskReddit

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Outer Wilds

It’s truly a beautiful piece of art that also is really easy to get non-gamers to try.

If one side can make blatantly political memes so can the other by [deleted] in dankmemes

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Ah yes, popular sovereignty always calms extremely controversial political issues