Puzzle time: the baseball fan
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Thought this was going to be about the 69 Mets who lost their first game. But then they swept past the Orioles.
FTW
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I should be more specific. Did the news make you more or less optimistic than you were before hearing it?
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I should be more specific
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Your reasoning doesn’t make any sense. What if his team was down 0-1 games when he left and 0-3 games upon his return? Surely the odds of his team winning the series would have dropped considerably, even though all the games are independent.
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Well, you didn't specify what "Should you be happy?" means.
If I were a stoic, for instance, all that would matter to make me happy was whether the team played as well as they could, and it wouldn't matter whether they won or lost.
I figured that "one game each" is better than what is to be expected at the given odds, hence one should be happy.
But you seem to mean something else.
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I thought I clarified in my second post.
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Yes.
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I think the odds that you’re odd are even higher.
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You know what's funny?
My kid's old math circle mailed this question out Sunday. I have nobody to ask any clarifying questions of, they send out hints Tuesday and Thursday and an answer Saturday. But somehow I managed.
I think there's a skill called 'questionology' that I'm apparently better at than you and Ax.
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You guys should become a comedy troupe!!!
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@jon-nyc said in Puzzle time: the baseball fan:
I think there's a skill called 'questionology' that I'm apparently better at than you and Ax.
The difference is that you know you have nobody to ask for clarification, whereas for us its a small investment to ask a clarifying question compared to investing valuable brain time for questionology. You are not better; you are just in a situation with less options
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You’re comparing the time before the first game to the time after,
Should be the time before the camping trip to the time after.
