Proposition

I psycologist offers the following proposition: He's going to write down a number between 1 and 100 (inclusive) on a piece of paper. You may pick whether the number is less than 50 or greater than 50 and he'll wager his $100 (if you guess correctly) against your $95 dollars (if you guess incorrectly). He claims he knows which way typical people will go, and so has the advantage.


Do you take the wager?


- Louie

Be he a psychologist, elephant trainer or mandolin man, I will not take that wager.


For others: what price would you like to receive in order to take that bet?

I wouldn't take the bet at any price as long as there's no "or equal to" following either "greater than" or "less than". But maybe I'm unreasonable.


Lance

You cannot take this bet (unless you're feeling charitable), because he's going to write down "50" and you have to pick whether it's a number greater or lesser than 50.


natedogg

Well, that didn't take long. Yes, he'll write down "50" and you'll lose.


Newsflash: Don't take the other guy's proposition.


- Louie

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