> The question is not ambiguous and it is not a trick wording and it is not unclear. > > You just did the math incorrectly.
Look at the result of your own poll.
What is more likely - that 78.5% (at time of commenting) of your readership understood your wording in the way you intended it, did the conditional probability maths and got it wrong (and all the same way).
Or, that your wording was unclear, and conveyed to your audience that you were indicating which specific (instance of a) die was showing a six (when that's not what you meant) ?
Loads of the stuff you post here is awesome. You buggered this post up, by not being clear when you thought you were. It happens to everyone. Man up, admit it, move on, post more awesome stuff.
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Date: 2011-08-19 08:59 pm (UTC)>
> You just did the math incorrectly.
Look at the result of your own poll.
What is more likely - that 78.5% (at time of commenting) of your readership understood your wording in the way you intended it, did the conditional probability maths and got it wrong (and all the same way).
Or, that your wording was unclear, and conveyed to your audience that you were indicating which specific (instance of a) die was showing a six (when that's not what you meant) ?
Loads of the stuff you post here is awesome. You buggered this post up, by not being clear when you thought you were. It happens to everyone. Man up, admit it, move on, post more awesome stuff.