Comments on: Smart Disagreement

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:44:22 +0000

Well, I’ve read the question several times already and have yet to come up with a satisfying solution. How about posting one?

By: yaniv

yaniv — Mon, 28 May 2007 22:37:05 +0000

I think its time I gave some hints for the solution (I am refering to my solution as “the solution” although there may be others. Please feel encouraged to post your thoughts!).

Well, first of all, consider a very big group of people – for example 100,000,000,000 men. Of course, the phenomenon demonstrated here occures in every-day life (for much smaller groups of men) but considering the huge group emphasizes the result.

Now a second hint is, try to consider an experiment involving something random.

Good luck!

By: yaniv

yaniv — Mon, 28 May 2007 21:49:36 +0000

Let me clarify these two important points:
– All the men know of all the rules (specifically, they know others are not lying).
– Obviously none of the men are females (as I specifically said that they are “very smart”). Just kidding!

By: gorilla

gorilla — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:07:09 +0000

do those smart men all know that the others do not lie?? is any of them female?

By: eyalis

eyalis — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:30:01 +0000

As one of the ppl who heard this riddle and thought it’s a silly one, I must say that the answer is amazingly interesting, because it’s really something that you understand about the foundations of science (at least that the way I see it…)
I’m sure that after the solution will be submitted there will be a long discussion about it