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:
> 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
>
>
>
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