Re: Are you a "Mental Gymnast"?

Subject: Re: Are you a "Mental Gymnast"?
From: Katie Kearns <kkearns -at- cisco -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:09:44 -0800


At 11:21 PM 1/21/2003 -0500, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:



Yes. My thought is that their answer (FAQ item 2.4) is horse-pucky.

The fallacy is that their answer assumes some sort
of causative connection between the two choices.

Well, sorry, but you're wrong. ;)

Everyone who's taken probability in college has done this problem, gotten equally annoyed at the answer, and finally a week later after their head exploding has resigned themselves to believe it's true.

(no, really, it is. ;D)

-Katie


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References:
Re: Are you a "Mental Gymnast"?: From: Gary S. Callison
Re: Are you a "Mental Gymnast"?: From: Kevin McLauchlan

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