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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by DiabloD3 on Friday October 31, 2014 @02:41AM (#8537587)
Maybe I'm bad at math, but wouldn't the set of (female, none), (male, female), and (male, male) ultimately lead to more females than males?
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Re:Tim Cook Speaks Up by lkozma on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:50AM (#8537847)
No, because the three cases happen with different probabilities:

(F,none): 0.5

(M,F): 0.25

(M,M): 0.25

The expected number of both F and M is 0.75

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