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- From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
- Subject: Improper attribution
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.162907.27071@cs.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- References: <1993Jan25.145759.2592@cs.cornell.edu> <1993Jan26.115545.11556@eng.cam.ac.uk> <1k3f3hINN29k@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:29:07 GMT
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- In article <1k3f3hINN29k@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >In article <1993Jan26.115545.11556@eng.cam.ac.uk>, cmh@eng.cam.ac.uk (C.M. Hicks) writes:
- >=karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) writes:
- >=
- >=>>You meet the daughter of a friend of yours on the street. You know
- >=>>that your friend has two children. You think to yourself, "Ignoring
- >=>>the occurrence of twins, and sex-linked differences in birth rates
- >=>>and infant mortality, what are the odds of this girl's sibling also
- >=>>being a girl?"
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- Just for the record, I never wrote the above paragraph. I quoted it
- merely because I disliked the wording, and now two people (Hicks and
- Lydick) have posted my name above it for no good reason at all. Sigh.
- Cut it out, guys!
-
- -- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
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