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Subject: Re: simple (?) statistics problem solved - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 19-Aug-83 08:44:19 EDT
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cfib!craig    Aug 18 10:18:00 1983


	This problem brings up an issue I don't understand about statistics
and or probability... Why does it matter what the initial set up was? It
is irrelevant to the problem... As the problem stood when you had to make
the decision about whether there was another gold coin in your cabinet,
you only had to consider the existence of two cabinets -- one containing
two gold coins, one containing only one -- the fact that there existed
a third cabinet, which had no gold coins is irrelevant.... 
	Could someone point me towards a text which will tell me why
that third cabinet even is considered relevant to the answer?

Craig Partridge
ima!cfib!craig