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by valtron 4538 days ago
"I have a two children, one of which is a boy. What's the probability the other is a boy?"

Intuition wrongly treats the possibilities as sets and assigns probabilities 1/2 BB, 1/2 GB, rather than 1/3 BB, 1/3 GB, 1/3 BG.