No problem! For what it's worth, I ended up going with Shure SE215s instead. Roughly the same sound and price, but the 215s feel more solid, and their cable hooks over your ear, so they stay on better. LOVED my old S4s though.

When my S4s were giving out (due to a flimsy cable), I tried out the Reference S4 as a possible replacement. The sound was, to me, identical. The specs are the same, too, I believe.

Yeah, I might try them again now. I also loved the sound but hated the flimsiness. Switched to Shure SE215s.

I'll do my best to keep this to a minimum, but...

That's... not what I asked.

Okay, I feel like an idiot. I skimmed, and was responding based on other comments, not a thorough reading to the story. My bad.

If you click through to the original source, you find out they weren't topless pictures after all. Though they were head-less.

My wife and I both look at each other's messages *all the time*. Whoever's closer to the phone that beeps reads the message, basically. It didn't even occur to me as a potential privacy invasion.

Baking soda shouldn't react at all in water, or very minimally. It's just a single chemical, NaHCO3. Baking powder will fizz in water because it contains both the base and acid necessary to release CO2.

"1.7 ounces of vodka"

Sorry to be all over you on this - if I'm being annoying I can stop, or at least focus my replies to just one thread. But anyway, while the total number of outcomes are balanced, the frequency with which they can occur is not. When you've chosen the correct door initially, the host has the option of opening either…

2A and 2B occur with only half the frequency 1 and 3 do. That's why it becomes 2/3.

There are two varieties of girl/boy combos, but only one girl/girl; that's why it's 2/3. Don is not right.

Here's an image that hopefully makes it clearer.

The prize is placed before the zonker is removed, and it never moves; as such, that's when the probabilities are set, and that's why the probability you chose correctly at first is 1/3 (and thus the probability that it's somewhere else is 2/3).

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Because common sense is *really* bad at statistical stuff.

Fadecomic is 100% correct, but here it is from a different angle anyway.

There are four possible gender configurations, each 25% likely: girl-girl, girl-boy, boy-girl, boy-boy. Seeing one girl eliminates the "boy-boy" configuration, leaving three, two of which contain at least one boy.

So, the key is that the removed door isn't removed at random; the "host" is aware of where the prize is, and will always remove an incorrect door.