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Impossible LSAT Statistics Question

Posted by By Briggs February 3, 2026
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How Women’s Equality In Democracies Changes Voting (And Everything Else)

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M. Night Shyamalan, Mel Gibson, and John Wayne

Part II of the Two-Envelope problem was not too friendly, so here's something that is. Via HotAir, I came across the site Marginal Revolution, in which was featured a graph…
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The Two-Envelope Problem Solution: Part II

Read Part I first. We are in the peek first game here. The distribution of N When X is odd, and all X are discrete, we know we should always…
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The Two-Envelope Problem Solution: Part I

Another probability "paradox", the two-envelope problem1, goes like this: Before you are two envelopes, A and B. One of them contains $X and the other $2X (which is equivalent to…
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Four Chords Is All You Need: The Limited Nature of Pop Music

Coming tomorrow: the infamous two-envelope problem, solved! More mathematical constructivism. But today, as it's Sunday, something light and airy...and non taxing. A "comedy rock" group which bills itself as the…
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St Petersburg Paradox; Games and Statistical Decisions; RIP David Blackwell

David Blackwell, who died two weeks ago, was one of the first mainstream statisticians to "go Bayesian." And for that and his unique skill in clearly explaining difficult ideas, we…
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How to Fool Yourself—And Others—With Statistics

See the news box to the left. I wrote this long ago and never used it. I do not love it. But since I am so busy, I haven't the…
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US Military Fatality Statistics: Have Suicides Increased?

All statistics were gathered from this DOD site. 2010 numbers were current as of 5 June this year; they were not part of the plots below. In 1983, the year…
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‘The Most Dangerous Philosopher in the West’

Extremely busy day, today. I have time for only the merest sketch of a post. The title is not mine, but a label given to Slavoj Zizek, the rock-star communist…
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  1. JH on Impossible LSAT Statistics QuestionFebruary 3, 2026

    (A) Both valid and sound arguments are considered correct. The premise for a valid argument may be false. (See https://iep.utm.edu/val-snd/).…

  2. Pk on Impossible LSAT Statistics QuestionFebruary 3, 2026

    I chose A as clearly correct. The statistician's method for increasing the overall correctness does not refer to or support…

  3. Chad W Jessup on How Women’s Equality In Democracies Changes Voting (And Everything Else)February 2, 2026

    Sadly, Briggs is spot on overall, but the women he refers to do not represent the tough farm/ranch gals.

  4. shawn marshall on How Women’s Equality In Democracies Changes Voting (And Everything Else)February 2, 2026

    c-marie = are you quoting something?

  5. C-Marie on How Women’s Equality In Democracies Changes Voting (And Everything Else)February 2, 2026

    Perhaps think on this: God is extremely angry with the killings and mass murders of the unborn and just born…

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