bean_and_legumes Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 what came first.... the oyster or the shell? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 The Oyster. Obviously.This is not a chicken and egg question - the oyster can produce the shell but the shell can't produce the oyster.Next? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bean_and_legumes Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 alright clever clogs... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Sorry.Oh and by the way, on the other question, apparently it's the egg (I love the LONDON, England bit) http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/26/chicken.egg/LONDON, England -- It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics, pub bores and contributors to the East Dulwich Forum in East Dulwich, LONDON, England (OK I added that bit) through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the egg?Now a team made up of a geneticist, philosopher and chicken farmer claim to have found an answer. It was the egg.Put simply, the reason is down to the fact that genetic material does not change during an animal's life.Therefore the first bird that evolved into what we would call a chicken, probably in prehistoric times, must have first existed as an embryo inside an egg.So what is the meaning of life..... anyone? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightyroar Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 42but why does a watched pot never boil? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Why are deserted forests full of the sound of falling trees. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Four (Peckham Rye-related) questions here. I'm going No, No, Maybe, Unlikely. And did those feet in ancient timewalk upon England?s mountains green?And was the holy Lamb of Godon England?s pleasant pastures seen?And did the countenance divineshine forth upon our clouded hills?And was Jerusalem builded hereamong these dark Satanic Mills? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Several years ago, I sat perplexed and silent and thinking in a pub after a so-called friend layed 'The Monty Hall Question' on me.So, for anyone who wants to sit perplexed silent and thinking for a while, is desperately trying to not do any work and who hasn't heard it before, here it is:Monty Hall, quiz show host, offers his contestant a choice of three doors, behind each of which a prize is hidden. Behind one door is a sports car, behind the other two, booby prizes. The contestant selects a door, which remains closed.Monty then opens one of the remaining doors, behind which he knows there is a booby prize.The contestant is then give the choice of either sticking to his first choice, or switching.Should he switch, or stick? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TillieTrotter Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Stick IMHO Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 I have heard this before, I'm afraid. Will keep schtum for now. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Those who have read Derren Brown's book should know this one...I'll keep schtum for now too[edited once] Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Switch Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Switch. 2/3 chance you'll get the car. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 If you are the kind of person who entertains themselves by putting cats in boxes the car exists behind both doors and is also not behind both doors until you open one of them. All possibilities are real and coexist until it is determined which one we experience. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 A woodchuck would chuck lots of wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignumber5 Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 *Bob* Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Several years ago, I sat perplexed and silent and> thinking in a pub after a so-called friend layed> 'The Monty Hall Question' on me.> > So, for anyone who wants to sit perplexed silent> and thinking for a while, is desperately trying to> not do any work and who hasn't heard it before,> here it is:> > Monty Hall, quiz show host, offers his contestant> a choice of three doors, behind each of which a> prize is hidden. Behind one door is a sports car,> behind the other two, booby prizes. > The contestant selects a door, which remains> closed.> Monty then opens one of the remaining doors,> behind which he knows there is a booby prize.> The contestant is then give the choice of either> sticking to his first choice, or switching.> > Should he switch, or stick?Good question: sorry to be an anorak, but I have to bring this down to the mathematics of probability.Statistically, answer should be switch - the original probability of getting the right door was 1/3. now that a booby trap has been eliminated, the odds of the other door being the prize are, technically, 1 - 1/3 = 2/3, not 1/2 and 1/2. So switch._______________________________Donald Duck never wears trousers. but always wraps a towel round his waist after bathing - why? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 this puzzler always comes to mind when I hear people on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire say OUT LOUD what they think the answers MIGHT be before going 50/50 (whatever the producers say) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95559 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 I know a question setter on WWTBAM. Even he doesn't think the "computer take away two random wrong answers" is random. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95561 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Not sure that's right bignumber5, as that reasoning could just as easily be applied to the stick option.Basically you're being asked to choose again from fewer options, so it is 50-50. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveR Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Re: Monty Hall, you definitely switch.Think of it this way - if you stick, you have 1 door. If you switch, you have 2 doors. There is 1/3 chance the car is behind each door, so by switching you have 2/3. The fact that one of the 2 has a booby prize doesn't change anything. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 The key is that the two choices you are given at each stage are not random events - the probability is affected by the fact that the host knows where the booby prizes are and knowingly removes one.You have a 2/3 chance of choosing the booby prize in the first place and, if you do, switching guarantees you will win the car because the other booby prize has been removed. If you stick you keep your original 1/3 chance - switching doubles your chances of winning to 2/3. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bean_and_legumes Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 i request more questions like "Donald Duck never wears trousers. but always wraps a towel round his waist after bathing - why?"and less well known, mathematically and logically solvable problems like the three doors probability pooper..what have you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloop Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 hi everyone, i am new of the forum...about the oysters... by the way, i love oysters...I do not know l?gumes... though, I do know about internet signals... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlteenie Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Sorry to lower the tone somewhat, but why do you feel cold when you need a piss, yet warmer afterwards? I think we need to know. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/3074-shed-some-lightquestions-you-never-knew-the-answers-too/#findComment-95612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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