shminux comments on Negative and Positive Selection - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 06 July 2012 10:30:09PM *  4 points [-]

This fallacy may also explain why people tend to assign 50% percent probability to the odds of the second child being a boy in the classic puzzle.