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Revisiting the Name Variant of the Two-Children Problem

Revisiting the Name Variant of the Two-Children Problem

Initially proposed by Martin Gardner in the 1950s, the famous two-children problem is often presented as a paradox in probability theory. A relatively recent variant of this paradox states that, while in a two-children family for which at least one child is a girl, the probability that the other child …