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Originally Posted by ZuneIt
Shai Hulud! You're giving too good of odds! You need to lower them to make it appear you're not sure........."I don't think you're right there, buddy. Tell you what, I'll give you $500 to your $100, if you're right....Yeah, 5:1. I have $500...."
I actually do start the odds low. With the dinosaur guy it went something like this (we were playing hangman for some reason and my clue was "ancient type of reptile" the answer to which was dinosaur, which nobody got right, and this particular dude argued it wasn't fair since dinosaurs aren't reptiles.
"Pretty sure dinosaurs are repitles, buddy."
"No they're not!! Cuz...I read something about it recently"
"Well I'll bet you $20 you're wrong. We can look it up now."
"Ehrmm...well...uh...I don't like to gamble."
"But it's not gambling. I mean you're 100% sure, right?"
"Absolutely 100%!"
"So let's make the bet. I'll even give you to 2:1 odds"
(I have to explain what odds mean)
"Well... it still seems wrong. I don't want to get money involved"
.................... (this continues a while)
"Tell you what, we look this up in the encylopedia of your choice, and if dinosaurs are not reptiles, I'll give you $1000, and if they are, you give me $10"
"Sorry I don't believe in gambling."
That crazy thing is after all this, he actually looked it up on his phone, which emphatically proved I was correct, but his reading comprehension was so bad he thought it proved him correct. First line of the Wikipedia article: "Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria that first appeared during the Triassic period." There are many more such lines, but he clung to this one: "Although the word dinosaur literally means "terrible lizard", the name is something of an etymological misnomer; even though dinosaurs are reptiles, they are not lizards, nor are they descended from them." I tried to point out this merely says they're not lizards, but still, he insisted they weren't reptiles because of this. I even asked what are they if not reptiles but got no answer. I don't know if he just absolutely refused to be wrong about something or he was really that dumb.
The guy claiming Oregon was mostly black was probably dumber, but he at least admitted he was wrong when somebody looked it up. But again, I got no money.
There have been hundreds of similar situations, though typically the other person is not as hilariously wrong, but they never take my bets. I guess I should be like "I don't know. I think dinosaurs are reptiles but I don't really remember. Want to place a wager? It's just a little fun."
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Originally Posted by ZuneIt
Works for question: Are there more stars in the galaxy than trees on earth. You say galaxy, they hear/think universe.
That's tricky in and of itself...I wouldn't take that bet because I have no clue about the number of trees, but if I were guessing i'd actually be inclined to say stars in the galaxy. Hmm...Wikipedia says 100-400 billion stars. And...trees on earth is around 3 trillion (recently discovered, previously thought to be 400 billion), so roughly 10 times as many trees. But I bet the answer will reverse itself in a few hundred years, since we remove about 10 billion net a year, with that number escalating exponentially over time. Trees are going away a lot faster than stars.
I think most people just have no clue how many stars there are in the Milky Way or how many trees on earth.
And so I can pretend on I'm on topic:
@RawBeeG
No problem, let me know if you have other questions about SPR, effective stacks, etc.
Oh, and I hate to be the one to tell you this...but...the bees are dying. I'm so sorry.