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zodiac

3-Mar-06/2:35 PM

Are you insane?

For one, "Imagine that the US is blah blah blah" is part of the frigging question. It is a condition of all of the following options, or, one, I wouldn't have bothered typing it, and two, the options wouldn't make any fucking sense. You couldn't have even sensibly bothered to pick "1A" if you didn't actually think so, unless you're a clod and just like typing "1A" in response to things. You clearly understood that Asian flu being expected to kill 600 people was a condition of the question then, and now you're just refusing to admit your mistake (which is what you constantly accuse me of doing, except I don't.)

For another, the original wording was and is "If Program D is adopted there is 1/3 probability that nobody will die, and 2/3 probability that 600 people will die." So, yes, Program D stands to kill everybody. That is, there's the possibility that everyone will die if Program D is enacted. That's what "stands" means everywhere except Dovina Nonsense Land.

For another, I didn't even word the question. I typed it directly from a textbook on the study. At the very least, it worked for the study, and worked well enough for the study to become the most famous and highly-regarded example of its kind. I should point out that while you, Dovina, have objections, you are not the most famous or highly-regarded of anything.

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