29 Feb
2012
29 Feb
'12
11:03 p.m.
Typing too late at night...
On 2/29/2012 9:57 PM, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote:
The total in
the group, as seen by an outside observer, was three men
and two women. The men each looked around and saw two men and two
women. The women looked around and each saw three men and one woman.
I had actually figured that out. I was poking mild fun at your saying
she saw
three times as many women as men by choosing the non-Occams-razor
version of how to resolve this ambiguity; obviously you meant "three
times as many men as
women".
Sorry to be so off-topic. I'll stop now.
-- Alan
On 2/29/2012 9:46 PM, Alan Winston - SSRL Central
Computing wrote:
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David Harding wrote:
> Of course, it could just be my biased perception based on a limited
> sample. My wife tells of looking around in her med school lab
group and
> seeing three times as many women as men. The
guys in the group
looked
> around and saw a perfectly balance group.
And, with a mix or
three and
two they
were all right.
I'm trying to figure out how this story works, and the only way I can
see it being just as you say was if she was a man herself at the time.
-- Alan