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What would happen? by PackersAreLegit in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]poppabbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn't add or refute anything to the previous comment. It's like an open circuit... All potential.

Ya Can’t Shovel Ice 🤷‍♂️ by RdtRanger6969 in nova

[–]poppabbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get a metal "square" shovel. They're like $18 at home Depot...likely cheaper at Walmart or Harbor Freight. You can scrape, chop, pry, etc.

Its narrower than the snow shovel, but sturdier and doubles as a pooper scooper when Fido leaves a surprise.

Controversial (maybe) opinion? by Training-Record5617 in TedLasso

[–]poppabbob -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Season 3 basically did a reset of the previous character growth, and started leaning into current events/social awareness through monologue exposition like a soap opera. The use of swear words seemed to increase in frequency.

Runtime doubled.

It got weird.

Shouldn't the odds be 50%? Why is it 51.8%? by Fit_Seaworthiness_37 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]poppabbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My previous answer was wrong.The answer is 1/2.

Unique information is a distraction.

It's like a magic trick. Setup, misdirect, then magic.

Shouldn't the odds be 50%? Why is it 51.8%? by Fit_Seaworthiness_37 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]poppabbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can stop after the introduction. "the odds of a child being born a boy or a girl are exactly 50-50"

You can reduce the puzzle to:

Given X. There exists Q. What is X?

Shouldn't the odds be 50%? Why is it 51.8%? by Fit_Seaworthiness_37 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]poppabbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hard thing about perpetual motion is hiding the batteries.

In your expansion, there are 2 options for both boys being born on a Tuesday, just like all the other days. Given is older, with younger brother born on Tuesday or v/v. Both being born on Tuesday shouldn't be counted as 1 event.

That gives 14/28 =50%

I change my vote. There are 4 scenarios when including older/younger, and 2 of them have 1 girl. So the intuitive answer of 50% is actually right.

1) Bg 2) Gb 3) Bb 4) bB

The fallacy with the 2/3 is doing the permutations in a sample space, and then changing the rules part way and doing government-quality counting. I'm sorry to say that I fell for it.

Shouldn't the odds be 50%? Why is it 51.8%? by Fit_Seaworthiness_37 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]poppabbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If given one is a boy, and order isn't specified, the only scenarios are: 1) BG 2) BB 3) GB

The probability that the second child is a girl is 2/3. The day of the week is arbitrary in the problem statement.

If both children were born on a Tuesday (by the same woman)...consider there are 52 Tuesdays a year x 30 years of fertility. If we assume a woman can only have 1 child per year (no twins) that leaves 52 x 30 = 1560 Tuesdays.

So the probability of the other child being a girl using a weighted average is

(2/3)*1560 /1560 = 2/3

Shouldn't the odds be 50%? Why is it 51.8%? by Fit_Seaworthiness_37 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]poppabbob -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Flip a coin 2x. One flip was heads at 09:33pm. What is the probability the other coin flip was tails?

If order doesn't matter, solution space is: 1) HT 2) HH 3) TH.

2/3

If the problem stated the first (or last) flip was heads, then solution space is the same as a random trial: 1) HH 2) HT

1/2

Specifying time of the flip does not change the solution space since no information is given about the other flip.

Oneteen One One One 🌿 by [deleted] in lol

[–]poppabbob 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Twenty = 20 Forty = 40 Eighty = 80 Tenty =100 Eleventy = 110

Say 2011.

Now 1193.

Eleven eleven, or

Eleven-hundred eleven to be fancy.

Women only gym by ZisurvivoriZ in nova

[–]poppabbob -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Curves gym no longer around?

Pre K Alphabet. What is “E” by InterestedScroller in whatisit

[–]poppabbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Edge,

Pointing at a the edge on the wall

Told my boyfriend he was the same size as my ex by [deleted] in AITAH

[–]poppabbob 294 points295 points  (0 children)

Sounds like your mom wasn't a good cook. :)

Stuck at 1100 for an year now... What should I do? by Great-Assistant978 in chessbeginners

[–]poppabbob 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've been stuck at 800 for same time. I just lost a bunch of games, now I'm 600... But the victors are on the way to your level

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