The whole point of this article is that he’s much, much better than the other options the Seahawks have. Sure he’s replaceable, but maybe the Seahawks would rather spend an extra $800k than live with his replacement. He’s betting they will.

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Is it the recommended method? No. Does it happen more or less daily? Yes. Is the kid entirely fine? Also yes.

It’s not a scheme, it’s just an explanation of how coupons (aka scholarships) work. The reason (or at least, a reason) it isn’t happening in the real world is that the assumption it relies on (that absent the coupon you wouldn’t sell another unit of your product) doesn’t often (or ever) apply in the real world. Think…

Why would it need to be more profitable than a men’s alternative? Can’t you have both? Football was cut ostensibly because the Title IX requirements of supporting the bowling team outweighed the profits from football. If bowling actually makes the school money, who cares how much it makes relative to football?

The intentional sloppiness makes sense where the scam eventually requires effort on the part of the scammer so that they don’t waste that effort on someone who will eventually catch on. Here, where it appears the whole scam is just collecting entry fees, that doesn’t really make sense. So the scammers are idiots, but…

Maybe I missed it in the article, but it’s not clear to me whether the Orioles did hand DNC, Chimes and whoever else a check. If they did, but those companies are just pocketing the windfall, we should be criticizing the companies and not the Orioles. If their contracts let the O’s off the hook when games aren’t…

This just trades out the randomness of the lottery for the randomness of guessing who will suck. So the only tanking-relevant factor here is delaying the effects for a year. No different than saying that the worst team in 2012/2013 gets the most ping pong balls in the 2014 draft rather than the 2013 draft. That might…

Any insight into how the CBA actually gets drafted? I would assume there is an army of lawyers involved on both sides, but from what I’ve seen, it really isn’t very well written, especially for a document governing such a huge pile of money. I see small office leases every day with far more complete definitions of…

Sharper presumably got a shorter sentence in exchange for agreeing to this testing. So he's clearly okay with someone strapping up his dick so long as he gets out of prison a bit sooner. Since the test is garbage, maybe that's not the best deal for a prosecutor to strike.

I think we've finally just come to the point where we disagree as to how to interpret the video, which, given how long this conversation has gone one, seems like pretty good progress to me.

Yes, it has. I'm going to struggle to stop thinking about it, but I should probably give it a rest for the evening.

This is from someone else in the thread so I can't vouch for it's accuracy, but here's a transcript for the video:

This is good, thanks. I need to read closer, but I think this all comes down to the assumptions were making. If we assume that Monty CANT open the door with the car, then yes, Monty Fall = Monty Hall and you should switch. I think instead we're considering a situation where Monty DOESNT open the door with a car.

Your understanding of the Monty Hall problem is correct; this just isn't the Monty Hall problem. Instead, it's a variant known, according to Wikipedia, as the "Ignorant Monty" problem. The difference is that the host/Bob doesn't know what he's doing. It doesn't seem like a big deal since he ends up dead/revealing a…

I'm not suggesting the Monty Hall problem has been resolved incorrectly, I'm suggesting this video is not the Monty Hall problem.

The key to the Monty Hall problem and the piece that is missing from this version is that Monty knows what's behind the doors and Bob doesn't know which bush is safe. As I've posted elsewhere, see row five here for a variation of the Monty Hall problem that is identical to Bob & Alice:

I mean, this probably won't be worth much or likely to surprise you, but I think you've learned incorrectly. To be fair, though, I'm not a mathematician either.

In Ignorant Monty he always reveals a goat too and so the contestant is always left deciding between a car and a goat: "'Monty Fall' or 'Ignorant Monty': The host does not know what lies behind the doors, and opens one at random that happens not to reveal the car."

A different tact. Check out the fifth row of alternatives to the Monty Hall problem: