Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 03:55:51 01/09/02
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On January 07, 2002 at 21:22:01, Albert Silver wrote: >On January 07, 2002 at 20:52:43, K. Burcham wrote: > >> >> >>our local sunday paper has a regular column with write in problems. >>this column is by marylin von sant(spelling?). supposedly she has the highest >>female iq in the world. > >Highest IQ period unless there is some new record holder. I've read her column a >few times in the Capital Times, or whatever Wisconsin paper carries it. I >forget. She may be gazillions better in math, She is not good at math. She wrote a book about the Fermat conjecture after Andrew Wiles proved it, somehow trying to refute Wiles' proof. It is quite obvious she had no idea what she was writing about and that she has never seriously studied math. That only shows that being extremely intelligent is not enough and that one must also work hard (like Wiles did). José. >and may know all the dictionaries >backwards and forth, but I was extremely unimpressed I must say. She signs with >Vos Sant, though whether it is due to foreign lineage or as a contrived joke >(Vos does not exist in the English language) is hard to say. In one article she >commented she used to hardly ever vote concluding that her single vote was >meaningless and ineffectual so why bother? Super IQ at work there. But the real >question that never ceased to nag me was what on earth was the world's highest >measured IQ doing writing a weekly trivia column for a local midwest paper? It >_really_ makes one wonder. > > Albert > >>i remember this problem was in her column. >>her answer was once any door is opened, and only two doors are left, >>the original odds of 33% are still there, even though there are only two doors >>to choose from. i agree with you, it also seems to me that the odds change to >>50% once there are only two doors left. >> >>we have an engineer at work that has a PHD. so this is the problem i posed to >>him with a twist. this engineer also agrees with marylin. so i asked him once >>the first door is open, then lets stop the original story, and add this to it. >>now we bring in someone else, now he chooses. what are the odds for the second >>person that is choosing. the doctors answer was 50/50 for the second person, but >>he said it was still 33% for the original person that chose when there was three >>doors. >>kburcham
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