Are you as smart as the smartest woman on earth? (A Probability Problem)

[barrett]

This is actually a quite simple one, and it's a useful example of conditional probabilities. Tenn got it right:

Well this is weird. First, barrett credits dualstow. Then WiseOne credits me.

Again, it was Maddy.

I feel the need to point out that neither dualstow nor I were involved in writing the Beach Boys song "Good Vibrations".

Just to clarify, Tenn, I never claimed you and dualstow wrote "Good Vibrations." My point was merely that you two recorded the best version. Now where is that friggin' goat I was looking for?

[dualstow]

For what it's worth, a friend of mine is tangentially involved in the music business. He knows all the surviving Beach Boys in person and has been heavily involved with Devo. He literally wrote the book on Devo as he likes to say, literally. Apparently, his counterpart at the Beach Boys (interviews, liner notes, archiving of recordings) contacted him, so he has some connection to the Beach Boys now, too. I'm sure he would be amused by this conversation.

@Tenn: I think it needs a bit more cowbell. What say you?

[Mountaineer]

For what it's worth, a friend of mine is tangentially involved in the music business. He knows all the surviving Beach Boys in person and has been heavily involved with Devo. He literally wrote the book on Devo as he likes to say, literally. Apparently, his counterpart at the Beach Boys (interviews, liner notes, archiving of recordings) contacted him, so he has some connection to the Beach Boys now, too. I'm sure he would be amused by this conversation.

@Tenn: I think it needs a bit more cowbell. What say you?

I put my pants on just like the rest of you -- one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.

Go forward, move ahead. Whip it.