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		mjmahone17 on May 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest... You can brute force this without knowing Bayes’ theorem (see the grids in the article as an example of iterating through every possible solution then counting to arrive at the right probability).

saeranv on May 9, 2021 [–]

Ah! I see, I thought the commentator was saying to solve it mathematically. Manually "simulating" it makes sense.

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