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Old 10-November-2005, 04:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Ken G
The issue is, if you set up the experiment as described, and repeated it millions of times, you'll find that the vast majority of the times that a 7 was chosen, the selection came from the small urn, if you have a 50/50 chance of choosing either urn.
That's not the same thing, though. Saying you perform the experiment and then check the value is not the same as fixing the value and then performing the experiment!
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