Re:A Counterintuitive Probability Game
by greenbay20 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @08:34AM
(#21146206)
>> But for any two finite numbers, A and B, the chance that C will fall between them if selected from an infinite range is 1/infinity (or 0).
I think you're assuming we pick C uniformly at random from an infinite range, but this is not possible.
In general, the claim is not true: consider picking C from a sample of a standard normal, if A = -B = 2 then with >95% C will lie between A and B.
I think you're assuming we pick C uniformly at random from an infinite range, but this is not possible. In general, the claim is not true: consider picking C from a sample of a standard normal, if A = -B = 2 then with >95% C will lie between A and B.