[b]Smee: [/b]There is a 100% probability that a higher that average number of people involved in this thread have the memory of a gold fish and forget what they've just said.
Indeed Smee, indeed:
[b]Smee: [/b]50:50 end of. Any other solution is just stupid.
[b]Smee: [/b]Odds are 2:1 - which is not the same as a probability of 66%
[b]Smee: [/b]2 possible outcomes 50:50 chance.
[b]Smee: [/b]The only idiocy that is going on is people not realising that both solutions are correct.....
GrahamS - are you stalking me?
As someone who uses stats and probability on a daily basis I have read this thread avidly. I came to it once the answer had been agreed several times and so until now have not felt the need to comment.
But I would now like to say Graham S you truly have the patience of a saint!
Or possibly the stubbornness of a donkey 😕
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also theres the possibility that out of the cross section of 100 families a certain percentage will have twins/ triplets/ octuplets. Riddle me that one GrahamS
I suggest Bomberman you read the original question in full.
yes Drac i understand the answer now thanks. GrahamS is right but that just makes him a smug git for posting a question that he knew the answer to in the first place.
Ah ok.
Ah bomberman has finally seen the light. Excellent!
Perhaps I am smug git, though I think it would have been a bit sh*t if I'd posted a puzzle that I didn't know the answer to.
Still at least I didn't jump up and down calling people cretins and penarses when in fact I was wrong. 😛
(apology accepted by the way)
GrahamS - what is the probability that you are incorrect? 50:50 per chance? 😉
Smee
In this case GrahamS is most definitely 100% correct, there's no 50:50, or indeed 66.66:33.33 about it 😉
*waves at The Sanity Assassin*
