• @GhostsAreShitty
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    36 months ago

    You’ve also ruled out TH by knowing one is heads. So the only possibilities are HT and HH. Is that not 50/50?

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      it depends on how you know this information. did you look at one of the coins? then it’s 50/50. did you ask a friend to look and yell you whether at least one of them is heads? then it’s 2/3.

      • @[email protected]
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        6 months ago

        But you do know which one it is, because you said “other child”. As soon as you ask the question, you assign a specific outcome to a specific child eliminating HH and HT (or in the new example, BB and BG). “What are the odds they have a female child” and “what are the odds the other child is female” are not the same question.