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This is not about someone choosing to lie, it’s about someone choosing what true thing to say. If “you're told that at least one of them is a girl” was intende
by kgwgk 1y ago
This is not about someone choosing to lie, it’s about someone choosing what true thing to say.
If “you're told that at least one of them is a girl” was intended to mean “you ask whether at least one of them is a girl and you’re told that at least one of them is a girl” it was pretty easy to make it clear.
In that case it’s straightforward that p(you're told at least one is a girl | both are girls) = p(you're told at least one is a girl | only one is a girl) = 1 (with just the mild and reasonable assumption that you’re not being lied to.)
Edit: also the reasonable assumption that your question is unrelated to the number of girls - it’s easy to imagine settings where you asked because of something which may be correlated with the number of girls.