Author: Albert Silver
Date: 18:25:38 01/07/02
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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, 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.
I just remembered right after hitting the Submit button (so much for _my_ IQ).
It seemed an obvious pun as she signed Vos Savant. It's been a few years (8).
Albert
>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.
>
>>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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