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Your post is EXACTLY spot on and how it is for most of us. We hide it and through abnormal ability to concentrate on anything we are interested in, become experts at it. Guess what the first thing is that we [all] become obsessively interested in? Hiding it !!! :-)

I slipped up here because of a booze-up.

PS. the case of your friend's child is a rare case of advanced Autism [not an aspie], who is going to be a burden on the parents for the rest of their life [no fun for the kid either]. A tragedy.

I should clarify something quickly. Where I said: 'the ability to concentrate' [abnormally] ,doesn't mean that anything I get into [abnormally] I always become good at. I don't. Just if I have also a natural talent in that area too.

Punting : average. Painting 5ys. [even though a bit colour blind] Hopeless, Guitar: Ditto for the effort and years. ect. Some great others not so great. not even if I'm hopeless, I still keep going at it like a rabbit and know I'm hopeless, but can't stop until it runs it's course. Sometimes years, sometimes weeks.

The important thing in this exercise was that some people should realise they have gaps in their basic probability skills and try to take steps to remedy them, and thus save themselves fiscal grief.

But you cannot resist playing the fool to dumb down this resource even further.

I wonder how much the management appreciate this when they are trying to use this forum to market intelligent rating systems based on mathematical modelling.

As far as I can see Woof's presentation of a classical probability puzzle is correct.




It is wrong to infer that a parent of the kids told you this.

It is wrong to infer that you were shown a picture of them.

It is also wrong to infer as CP later did, that the firstborn was a girl (or in his argument "a heads").

And it is beneath contempt to try to sabotage a philanthropic effort just because your feathers are ruffled.

As it is wrong for Iomaca to commend both of you in your recalcitrance.

Informing me that he once regularly mentally calculated Harmonic Means does not impress me in the slightest. Aiding and abetting such an orgy of ignorance depresses me considerably.

JFC!
Sadly, I have to inform you that I am not smart enough to calculate the harmonic mean for more than 3 numbers mentally. (I can't keep the results in memory) You must be younger than I thought, otherwise you would know, that there were books of tables for just about anything. We used those to get the numbers.
Disagreeing with someone, does not mean dismissing other's ideas! At least, it should not be.
And please calm down. We are not at war with each other.
All the best to you.

one is too many and a thousand is not enough,perhaps thats why slowmoe does'nt drink.........

I think the chance of it being a boy is 2/3.

GREETINGS
Interesting that a MIND game question, can lead to such an opening of HEARTS.

It's obvious that WOOF is not much of a "punter" because he's ----

ASKED A -- "QUINELLA QUESTION" & EXPECTED AN -- "EXACTA ANSWER"