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Cecil Adams is dumb. by Furcifer 08/11/2006, 2:24am PDT
Impossibly dumb. The kind of dumb that's too dumb to know it's dumb.
Cecil Adams wrote:

There is a family with two children. You have been told this family has a daughter. What are the odds they also have a son, assuming the biological odds of having a male or female child are equal? (Answer: 2/3.)

The mind boggles. The master goes on to explain:
The possible gender combinations for two children are:

(1) Child A is female and Child B is male.

(2) Child A is female and Child B is female.

(3) Child A is male and Child B is female.

(4) Child A is male and Child B is male.

We know one child is female, eliminating choice #4. In 2 of the remaining 3 cases, the female child's sibling is male. QED.

QED LOL GG!

A few brave souls try to correct the glaring fallacy in this argument, and the only coherent reply from the Cecilites is to correct the spelling of "Martin Gardner." Psh.
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Cecil Adams is dumb. by Furcifer 08/11/2006, 2:24am PDT NEW
    check out the original article by Flavio 08/11/2006, 2:53am PDT NEW
        you damn kids and your quote links NT by Flavio 08/11/2006, 2:53am PDT NEW
        Re: check out the original article by Furcifer 08/11/2006, 3:43am PDT NEW
            Re: check out the original article by Flavio 08/11/2006, 4:40am PDT NEW
                ah by Flavio 08/11/2006, 6:46pm PDT NEW
    Somebody needs to watch "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" NT by motherfuckerfoodeater 08/11/2006, 4:45am PDT NEW
    How old is Cecil by now? Like 80? :( NT by Creexul :( 08/11/2006, 10:48am PDT NEW
 
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