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Old 09-November-2005, 12:39 PM
grant hutchison grant hutchison is offline
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Originally Posted by Fram
I can not pick any ball I want, and so the "choice" of a ball is no choice at all.
Exactly. So it would be odd to find yourself among one of the first balls. The number you find yourself to be therefore does allow you to make a statistical inference about how many balls there are.

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