Daecon

Today I learned a new word, courtesy of Strange: Prevaricating. (To act or speak in an evasive way.)

So... gay people don't live in houses?

Well it's OBVIOUSLY Christians who are trying to legislate who can use what bathroom based on their assigned gender at birth. And who try to push their specific version of creationism in the science classroom.

It's already been explained a few times now why people "intuitively" think the chance is 50:50 when it isn't. If you have a different perspective then why don't you present your viewpoint instead of asking us to guess, or dismissing our other responses?

Yes it does. Why do you think it doesn't?

Think of it this way: I have two cards, an Ace and a 2. I shuffle them and lay them face down, and ask you to choose which one is the Ace. You have a 50:50 chance of guessing correctly, right? Now, after you've made your decision, I deal eight more cards face down next to the first two. Does your chance of having already guessed the Ace go down to 1:10 or does it stay as 50:50? Likewise, if I first shuffle and deal ten cards, and then ask you to guess the Ace, your chance of guessing correctly starts at 1:10. I then remove eight of the non-Ace cards. Your chance of having already guessed the Ace don't increase to 50:50 just because the situation has changed, it stays the way it was when you first made your decision, at 1:10. It's the same principle with three doors instead of ten cards, your original chance was 1:3, so it stays that way even if one of the doors is opened. People disregard that and just see the two doors, and so think "Oh, it must be 50:50 now."

So... Do you want us to give you our answer as to why the incorrect answer seems intuitive, or to guess whatever answer you're thinking of?

What exactly do you mean by "Neo-Darwinanism"?

There's always the implication of allowing homosexuals to become heterosexual, but never of allowing heterosexuals to become homosexual. Why is that?

If the Periodic Table was like an "alphabet" of molecular structure... has anyone ever made a "dictionary" of molecules? Would it even be possible to list all the known molecules and their properties in a single reference material, or are there just too many?

Why did the monkey fall out of the tree? Because it was dead.

I've heard that spider silk is stronger than steel.

Heya Another newbie here from the UK! My areas of interest are mainly metaphysics and philosophy, with some quantumn mechanics and string theory thrown in for good measure.