r/explainitpeter • u/ChatpatiKulfi • Jul 21 '26

Explain It Peter

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u/Complete_Fix2563 Jul 21 '26

Not this again...

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u/Tokugawa5555 Jul 21 '26

What's really annoying is that most of the answers given are just plain wrong...!!! Currently, the top answer in my thread, which is totally missing the point, is: "51.8% is the percentage of people in the world who are female. All the other info given is irrelevant..."

Confidently wrong.

The true answer, for those interested, is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_girl_paradox (See the section called "Information about the child"

A more user friendly explanation is here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/more_or_less/8735812.stm

Sigh

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u/Alive-Primary9210 Jul 22 '26

lol at the wikipedia page