Comment on Beauty quips, "I'd shut up and multiply!"

Fri, 07 May 2010 20:21:09 GMT

How about the following scenario? Say instead of Omega, it's just a company doing a weird promotional scheme. They announce that they'll secretly flip a coin in their headquarters, and if it's tails, they'll hand out prizes to a million random people from the phone directory tomorrow, whereas if it's heads, they'll award the same prize to only one lucky winner. The next day, you receive a phone call from them. Would you apply analogous reasoning in this case (and how, or why not)?

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