The Two-Child Paradox Reborn?
For at least half a century, probability devotees have puzzled over a problem known as the two-child paradox. Suppose we know that a family has two children, and we learn that one of them is a girl. What is the probability that there are two girls? Some have argued that the probability is one-half, others that it is one-third.
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