At 05:07 PM 6/11/2003 -0700, Francisco J. Diez wrote:
>Lotfi Zadeh wrote:
> > Premises:
> > (a) Most tall men wear large-size shoes
> > (b) Robert is tall
> > Question:
> > (c) What is the probability that Robert wears large-size shoes?
>
>The same as the proportion of tall men who wear large-size shoes. :-)
- Or - In the spirit of the hypothesis,
P(x wears large-size shoes | x is tall) = "Most"
the answer should be
P(Robert wears large-size shoes) = "Most".
:-) :-)
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