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boy or girl paradox: a standalone construct

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Probability

the puzzle that the chance a family's other child is a boy depends on exactly how one learned that at least one child is a boy.

In probability, boy or girl paradox refers to the puzzle that the chance a family's other child is a boy depends on exactly how one learned that at least one child is a boy. This meaning comes from Bar-Hillel (1982) in Cognition.[1]

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References

Bar-Hillel, M., & Falk, R. (1982). Some teasers concerning conditional probabilities. Cognition, 11(2), 109-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(82)90021-x

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