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HonoreDB comments on Probability puzzle: Coins in envelopes - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: HonoreDB 02 December 2011 05:58AM

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Comment author: HonoreDB 04 December 2011 06:27:51AM 1 point [-]

Certainly don't mind. It's certainly solvable with a propensity approach, it's just that the problem description points you toward the wrong kind of propensity: there really is an absolute proportion of coins to envelopes that has strictly decreased, but that's not the relevant value.