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View Poll Results: What are the chances the other is also a girl?
0% 1 9.09%
25% 0 0%
33% 4 36.36%
50% 5 45.45%
100% 1 9.09%
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Old 03-03-2013, 11:17 AM   #21 (permalink)
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congrats on another horrible thread.
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Old 03-04-2013, 09:40 AM   #22 (permalink)
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I'm too lazy to go and look, but I'm pretty sure I heard that there is a higher percentage of females to males. Which would make sense if we evolved to live in groups led by one dominant male who mated with a large number of females. Having as many males as females might be a waste of resources. Of course there isn't an option for a higher chance of it being a girl besides 100%, so I choose anal beads. And since that isn't an option, I refuse to vote out of protest.
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Old 03-04-2013, 10:04 AM   #23 (permalink)
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If anything it should be slightly higher than 50%. If they are twins then they're more likely to be the same sex. So 51%. Picked 50. And any gender variation such as asexual/haemophrodite/statistical variations like slight changes in birthrates thrown in wouldn't tip it more than 5% either way.

Especially since the scenario doesn't outline if the known girl is the younger or older sibling
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Old 03-04-2013, 12:12 PM   #24 (permalink)
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i'm going to say 33% because if it's a boy, natural selection has created a group ratio of 2:1. it seems to me that there needs to be more women because birthing is a longer process than f*cking. and i have no other input on this other than to say i deduced it from a beach boys song.
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congrats on another horrible thread.
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Old 03-04-2013, 02:37 PM   #26 (permalink)
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It's a trick question. She's barren.
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Old 03-04-2013, 02:38 PM   #27 (permalink)
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50%. She'll either have a boy or a girl.
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Old 03-04-2013, 07:43 PM   #28 (permalink)
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congrats on another horrible thread.
more productive than that 'MB was so much better back in the day' delusion youve been under


answer is 33% cause there's four different possibilities:

BG
GB
BB
GG

Because one of them is already a girl, that dismisses the possibility of BB, leaving:

BG
GB
GG

Since one of them is already a girl, 1/3 chance the other will also be a girl (GG)
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Old 03-04-2013, 09:20 PM   #29 (permalink)
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more productive than that 'MB was so much better back in the day' delusion youve been under


answer is 33% cause there's four different possibilities:

BG
GB
BB
GG

Because one of them is already a girl, that dismisses the possibility of BB, leaving:

BG
GB
GG

Since one of them is already a girl, 1/3 chance the other will also be a girl (GG)
I'm not sure if I understand this logic. Are you trying to use the Punnett square technique to determine sex? Because then all four choices would still apply for subsequent children.
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Old 03-04-2013, 10:41 PM   #30 (permalink)
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more productive than that 'MB was so much better back in the day' delusion youve been under

I think you and me are making the most threads lately! I go through phases of thread ideas. But yeah MB is just as good now as it was before. However people are a lot more whiney these days, including me!
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