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Trying to figure out why it seems wrong at first: it seems my first reaction would be emotional, that the odds of having a boy should be 0.5. However it is exactly because the total probability of a boy has to be .5 that the probability of a second boy has to be less than 1/2. The fact that you can pair "boy" with any enumerable attribute that can bring the probability down to 1/3 is ... funny.



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