On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
*>>> The sequence of N repetitions gives you an estimate of the >> probability distribution*. >> > > *>> OK, but even if N=1, such as when I flip a coin just once, I can still > obtain a probability of it coming up heads that makes sense.* > > *> But Quentin is asserting that if it comes up heads then the probability > of heads was 1 and the probability of tails was 0. Thus completely > misapplying the concept of probability.* > *I don't think so. If AFTER I hit a golf ball 200 yards and we all see that it landed on one particular blade of grass and you ask what was the probability that it landed on that one particular blade the correct answer would be 100% despite the fact that there are millions of other blades of grass that it could've landed on. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* mbg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2%3DD6Csgj0bTcnXytjfOf1jT6pF-hMf4QrAxH-ja02vVA%40mail.gmail.com.
