RE: Observation selection effects

2004-10-02 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Eric Cavalcanti writes: From another perspective, I have just arrived at the road and there was no particular reason for me to initially choose lane A or lane B, so that I could just as well have started on the faster lane, and changing would be undesirable. From this perspective, there is no

RE: Observation selection effects

2004-10-02 Thread Hal Finney
Stathis Papaioannou writes: Here is another example which makes this point. You arrive before two adjacent closed doors, A and B. You know that behind one door is a room containing 1000 people, while behind the other door is a room containing only 10 people, but you don't know which door is