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In the town of Fruitals, 15% percent of people have unlisted phone numbers. If you randomly select 200 Fruitilians from the phone book, approximately how many would have unlisted numbers?

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Pretty close poll so far. What's the deal Gordon? Is it a she-man? Ps: Why don't you show us the rest of the picture. It looks cropped to me.

Baby New Year The tradition of using a baby to signify the New Year began in Greece in 600 BC. It was their tradition to celebrate their god of wine, Dionysus, by parading a baby in a basket, representing the annual rebirth of that god as the spirit of fertility. Early Egyptians also used a...

Correct / Incorrect / Incorrect Incorrect / Correct / Incorrect Incorrect / Incorrect / Correct Those are the only possible initial conditions. Obviously you don't know which one you are given, but those are the only one's that are possible in a 3 door game.

You don't need to know what door is incorrect. That's part of the game, obviously. The point I am trying to make is that this non-intuitive riddle is best solved by switching doors given the condition that Mr. Hall will always show you an incorrect door after your first choice. I know...

hii a_ooiioo_a, This is a branch of information theory. Here is a complete example that I am taking the time out to help you understand this. Believe me, it took me a long time to understand it because it is not intuitive (meaning, it goes against what you would consider normal logic -- yet...

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It is not an illusion. If you pick a door and Monty shows you another door that is wrong, you better switch.

This is incorrect. The odds are not 2 out of 3 that you will switch from an incorrect door to a correct door. If you are switching FROM an incorrect door, then you already know it is incorrect, so you can't ask that question without changing the parameters of the question. There are...

That is an excellent summation of the problem, hiia_ooiioo. Basically, from the way I viewed it is from an information theory standpoint. You are presented with no knowledge about three conditions, one of which is the correct decision. The odds of you selecting correctly is 1/3, since you...

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Michael Jackson is a LEGEND. He is the king of POP MUSIC. He has the #1 selling album of ALL TIME! All of you are just JEALOUS because you aren't Michael!! Everyone wants to be like Mike!! Lay off my man!!! Michael is the SHIT!

Pee Wee's Big Adventure is on DVD?!?! You're right Gordon! There is no god!!!!

Anyone know how many she-men are around?

I got this problem from my psychology textbook and it was used as an example of how human decision making relies more on wholes than on parts.