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Ep. 246 - AJ Jacobs: The Puzzler

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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If She's Woken Up Once on Monday, but or Once for Heads and 100 Times for Tales?

There are a lot of Monty Python problems like that in mathematics, especially. They're dangerous. And I feel there's a little bit of that as well. One way to score it is basically you go through the experiment and whenever you give a probability,. then look at the odds that you placed on the correct answer. So if you use that scoring system, then you get a third but I could imagine halfers would probably say that's not the right scoring system to use. It also gets into the question of what's the value of a belief if there are no consequences to that belief? Like there's no, you know, if you don't have, I still have to say

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