Günther Greindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If all of the balls had been
numbered unambiguously from 1 through
> 1,000,010, the statistical effect produced by Bostrom's ambiguous ball
> 7 would vanish.
Agreed. Also consider another version: do not name the balls in the
first urn 1 to 10, but with uniform random numbers of the interval
[1,1000000].
Then, if you would draw the ball "517012" you would not know from which
urn it was either.
It is definitely a "labeling" artefact.
Agreed. 8-)
Gene Ledbetter
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