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From: Shaun Green <shaun@prospect.anprod.csiro.au>
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hgardner@gate.net wrote:
>
> No answer, but a thought.
> 
> Imagine a machine that drops ten balls into a track at long intervals. The track slopes
> downwards, changes course abruptly several times, then ends in a large bowl
> of oatmeal. A ball is released, clatters down the track, and plops into the oatmeal.
> 
> Imagine this machine as the only artifact in a sealed room. What assertions can you make about the
> probability that, after all ten baslls have been released, a ball will be found outside the bowl of oatmeal?
> 
> Now imagine that there is a child in the room with the machine. What effect does this have on that probability?

This is a trick question, right?

The kid eats the oatmeal and sticks the balls up hisorher nose.

