The number of possible outcomes you are able to distinguish. For the cat, if the only information you get is dead/alive, two. If the probabilities aren’t 50⁄50, you can think of one of those branches as stronger.
(Edited several times, this is the final version, I hope.)
The number of possible outcomes you are able to distinguish. For the cat, if the only information you get is dead/alive, two. If the probabilities aren’t 50⁄50, you can think of one of those branches as stronger.
(Edited several times, this is the final version, I hope.)