Timeline for The Frog Riddle - Conditional Probabilities
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| Sep 29, 2023 at 3:12 | answer | added | jeremysprofile | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 8, 2023 at 22:46 | answer | added | user377098 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 2, 2021 at 17:27 | comment | added | Alexis | @whuber You would also have to assume history did not exist, and that spotting a single male frog in a plurality of frogs was not evidence that that lone male frog had successfully sought out a female frog. There's all kinds of connoted assumptions about inter-sex relations as well, but those are possibly less germane to the probabilistic portion of the riddle. | |
| Mar 2, 2021 at 16:17 | answer | added | philosofool | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 7:41 | answer | added | bobbel | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 7:17 | answer | added | tomciopp | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 26, 2017 at 16:54 | comment | added | Tim Greenberg | The TED-Ed frog riddle answer is wrong. There is a very detailed answer here: duckware.com/tedfrog | |
| Apr 2, 2016 at 20:54 | answer | added | pit847 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 1, 2016 at 11:23 | answer | added | Not Real Bright | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 1, 2016 at 2:41 | answer | added | pit847 | timeline score: -4 | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 22:43 | comment | added | whuber♦ | It seems to me that one has to make strong assumptions in order to obtain any answer. E.g., supposing male frogs croak only in the presence of a female, you would obtain one answer; but supposing that they tend to croak in the presence of another male, you would obtain a different answer (and make a different decision). Or what if females are not gregarious and tend to avoid other frogs? You would make yet a third decision. Although it's clearly intended that you ignore all such considerations, contemplating them may help you understand why the odds you compute are not necessarily 50:50. | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 23:53 | answer | added | dsaxton | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 23:40 | answer | added | mb7744 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 23:29 | history | edited | Jernau | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 13, 2016 at 23:11 | comment | added | dsaxton | Can you restate the riddle here so readers don't have to follow the link (which also may break in the future) and then watch a video? | |
| Mar 13, 2016 at 23:07 | history | asked | Jernau | CC BY-SA 3.0 |