True, but if you go around asking people-with-two-chidren-at-least-one-of-which-is-a-boy “Select one of your sons at random, and tell me the day of the week on which he was born”, among those who answer “Tuesday”, one-third will have two boys.
(for a sufficiently large set of people-with-two-chidren-at-least-one-of-which-is-a-boy who answer your question instead of giving you a weird look)
I’m just saying that the article used an imprecise formulation, that could be interpreted in different ways—especially the bit “if you supply the extra information that the boy was born on a Tuesday”, which is why asking questions the way you did is better.
True, but if you go around asking people-with-two-chidren-at-least-one-of-which-is-a-boy “Select one of your sons at random, and tell me the day of the week on which he was born”, among those who answer “Tuesday”, one-third will have two boys.
(for a sufficiently large set of people-with-two-chidren-at-least-one-of-which-is-a-boy who answer your question instead of giving you a weird look)
I’m just saying that the article used an imprecise formulation, that could be interpreted in different ways—especially the bit “if you supply the extra information that the boy was born on a Tuesday”, which is why asking questions the way you did is better.