Assertion: girl's child | /r/HasProperty | boy
Facets:
value: mostly
type: DEGREE
value: especially
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Its answer could be 1/2, depending on what more information is available beyond that you found out just that one child was a boy.
text: The older child is a girl.
text: Once the child's sex is determined, most children are raised in accordance with it to be a man or a woman, fitting a male or female gender role defined partly by the parents.
text: Once the child's sex is determined, most children are raised in accordance with it to be a man or a woman, fitting a male or female gender role defined partly by the parents.
text: This question is identical to question one, except that instead of specifying that the older child is a boy, it is specified that at least one of them is a boy.
text: In this case, the statement is equivalent to the second (the child that you can see is a boy).
text: Commenting on Gardner's version of the problem, Bar-Hillel and Falk note that "Mr. Smith, unlike the reader, is presumably aware of the sex of both of his children when making this statement", i.e. that 'I have two children and at least one of them is a boy.'
text: Learning that at least one child out of two is a boy, or learning that at least one child out of one is a boy?
text: Learning that at least one child out of two is a boy, or learning that at least one child out of one is a boy?
text: If so, as combination BB has twice the probability of either BG or GB of having resulted in the boy walking companion (and combination GG has zero probability, ruling it out), the union of events BG and GB becomes equiprobable with event BB, and so the chance that the other child is also a boy is 1/2.
text: In this case, the combinations of BB, BG and GB are assumed equally likely to have resulted in the boy walking companion, and thus the probability that the other child is also a boy is 1/3.
text: In fact, as ε approaches 0, the total probability goes to 1/2, which is the answer expected when one child is sampled (e.g. the oldest child is a boy) and is thus removed from the pool of possible children.
text: Given this information, what is the probability that the other child is a boy?
text: What is the probability that both children are boys?
text: What is the probability that both children are boys?
text: Given this information, what is the probability that both children are boys?
text: The authors argue that the first formulation gives the reader the mistaken impression that there are two possible outcomes for the "other child", whereas the second formulation gives the reader the impression that there are four possible outcomes, of which one has been rejected (resulting in 1/3 being the probability of both children being boys, as there are 3 remaining possible outcomes, only one of which is that both of the children are boys).
text: Instead, their sexual attractions focus on children  boys, girls, or children of both sexes.
text: The older child is a girl.
text: Since both of the two possibilities in the new sample space {GG, GB} are equally likely, and only one of the two, GG, includes two girls, the probability that the younger child is also a girl is 1/2.
text: In other words, as more and more details about the boy child are given (for instance: born on January 1), the chance that the other child is a girl approaches one half.
text: It seems that quite irrelevant information was introduced, yet the probability of the sex of the other child has changed dramatically from what it was before (the chance the other child was a girl was 2/3, when it was not known that the boy was born on Tuesday).
text: the parents, especially if the child is a girl.
text: In those families where the first two children were girls, the birth sex ratio of the third child was 1.51:1.
text: It is estimated that each year at least one million children, mostly girls, become prostitutes.
text: What is the probability that both children are girls?
text: What is the probability that both children are girls?