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RE: The scientist who stares at goats - Are we ready to understand statistics?
This problem is one of those basic ones that shows how unintuitive statistics can be. You cannot rely on your basic human instincts to solve weird statistical problems. It's why poker is so interesting too.
Yes! poker is actually a very complex variation of this problem. (I was actually considering using it as an example of how it works).