I’m so happy: I’ve just got this one right, before looking at the answer. It’s damn beautiful.
Same here. It was a perfect test, as I’ve never seen the Tuesday Boy problem before. Took a little wrangling to get it all to come out in sane fractions, and I was staring at the final result going, “that can’t be right”, but sure enough, it was exactly right.
(Funny thing: my original intuition about the problem wasn’t that far off. I was simply ignoring the part about Tuesday, and focusing on the prior probability that the other child was a boy. It gives a close, but not-quite-right answer.)
Same here. It was a perfect test, as I’ve never seen the Tuesday Boy problem before. Took a little wrangling to get it all to come out in sane fractions, and I was staring at the final result going, “that can’t be right”, but sure enough, it was exactly right.
(Funny thing: my original intuition about the problem wasn’t that far off. I was simply ignoring the part about Tuesday, and focusing on the prior probability that the other child was a boy. It gives a close, but not-quite-right answer.)