RE: Self Sampling Assumption (was: my objection to the Doomsday a rgument)

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 23:45:55 MDT

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    > > You and 99 other people are standing shoulder to shoulder in
    > > a line. Someone from behind the line places green or yellow
    > > hats on the heads of everyone in the line, including you. You
    > > and everyone else in the line are now sporting a hat, but
    > > none of you know which color of hat you have, and none of you
    > > know the colors of the hats of others.
    > >
    > > All you know is that 90% of the hats are green.
    > >
    > > Now someone asks you to guess the color of your own hat.

    I'd just count the hats.

    Emlyn



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