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- From: Ken.Stuckas@iphase.UUCP (Ken Stuckas)
- Sender: FredGate@iphase.UUCP
- Path: sparky!uunet!infoserv!iphase!FredGate
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: origin of life articl
- Message-ID: <714208218.0@iphase.FidoNet.Org>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 17:40:00 EST
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- -> > Just to nit pick, but given a fair coin, the previous 1,000,000 >
- -> tosses have absolutely no bearing on the next. The odds of the >
- -> next toss being tails are still 50-50. I understand your point, >
- -> but your analogy is flawed.
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- IMHO it depends on the question you ask in advance of flipping any coin.
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- Q#1: If I flip this coin, what are the odds that it will come up heads?
- (Obvious answer: 50/50)
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- Q#2: If I flip this coin, what are the odds that it will come up heads
- 1,000,000 times in a row?
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- Once the coin has been flipped, you can't go back and ask the question in retrospect, because the question has no relevance. Or does it?
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- * Origin: Aether (1:112/2020)
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