Jeremiah

You seem to want to have this conversation with me, so I would say it is very relevant.

I don't care about Paris, Michael, it is you trying to stack the deck.

This is not your standard multiple choice question we are dealing with here. Most multiple choice questions do not involve a random sample.

I have understood what you are doing since TheMadFool made his first post, it was incorrect then and it incorrect now. And if you are so right, then w...

You were not asked what the capital of France is. That is an entirely different question. You changed the question. I think there have been too many r...

I do this.

I consider the it's-subjective-arguments, in cases like these, nothing but a cop-out and I actually end up losing more respect for a person than someo...

I clearly disagree with that.

Not in this context.

If your "solution" involves reshaping the question or changing the sample space, then you are wrong. And the mods can get mad at me for saying so, and...

When figuring probability repeated values are very important, if you remove them then you will misrepresent the distribution. Repetition is not a vali...

I think you just can't admit that you were wrong.

The question is not how many are in the list. You people are confusing yoursleves because you all keep changing the parameters of the question with yo...

Actually, the thread has been very useful to me. I learned a lot about the people participating in it.

Ya, I don't really care what you think about me.

My argument over this 33% nonsense is already on the table and then some. I am not going to rehash the same crap over and over again. If you want to k...

You really live up to your name.

If you are trying to shame me, it won't work.

I got your goat, didn't I.

Ya, I don't think you could handle being me either.

You make me glad I am me.

I have explaind it well enough, and if you cannot grasps it by now then that is your problem not mine.

So much for philosophy, I suppose it had a nice go while it lasted.

I have the same attitude everywhere, it has nothing to do with "here".

A, B, C, D is not the sample space I used in my code. You remember that? My sample space was: 25, 50, 60, 25. We'll call this sample space 1. You reme...

No, you changed the sample space. There are two 25% not one.

Trust me, I am trying very hard to not be snarky, but I can only repeat myself so many times in polite manners.

All you did was created a new vector with three values instead of four.

The only way you could have a 33% chance is if each outcome has an equal chance of being selected. Clearly, after 10000 samples, they don't.

Just because you decided there were three choices that does not mean they have the same likelihood of occurring.

It is more than clear that you are "only half paying attention".

This is our question: Multiple Choice: If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct? A) 25% B) 50% C) 60...

I sure would love to gamble with some of you.

Would the 33% geniuses care to explain how 25% goes from having a greater probability to having an equal probability; from having one to one odds then...

The people saying 33% are demonstrating a fundamental misunderstanding of basic probability.

33% is not a valid answer no matter how you slice it. It completely ingores the distribution. I am sorry but that is just incorrect math, there is no ...

I think it is one of them most helpful post I have ever made.

Maybe you should thinking about it longer than 3 or 4 minutes.

To be honest, I think the 60% version generates more discussion.

The act of choosing 50% or 25% makes one of those answers correct, but they are not correct until you pick one of them. If you pick 50% then 25% is th...

There are two correct answers you just can't pick them.

If you wish to equate facts with truth, go for it; however, a scientific fact merely means the thing in question currently meets the standards to be c...

Then use your imagination and just imagine 0% is C. It does not really change anything.

It is not 33%, at all. That is just bad math. You can't combine similar values into one slot, as then you are no longer representing their proportion ...

That does not follow. Green and blue are both non-red so you add their probability together. Hey you don't have to believe me as this is basic math, j...

I am glad you like it, I plan on posting more math conundrums. I feel that even if they can't be answered we can still learn from them.

Actually, there are four choices A, B, C and D. I get what they are driving at but the chance event is for four slots, which mean if we just look at t...

Not everyone is worth engaging.

OK I'll try this one more time then that is it, as you don't seem to even comprehend what I am saying at all. Disagreeing is one thing, but not compre...

I don't invest a lot to a response when the opening sentence to the post I am responding to is a hyperbole.