Dr. Diaconis and Mr. Gardner both noticed the same loophole when they compared Ms. vos Savant's wording of the problem with the versions they had analyzed in their articles.
Sometimes the wording of the problem is such that some other assumption naturally follows, from normal experience.
Ideally, a free body diagram is what you will draw, but even drawing how you imagine the wording of the problem inside your head (like a chart maybe) will make solving this problem easier.
Studies have shown that the material inside the SAT might affect students' scores by the wording of the problems and the various cultural interpretations of words.
When word of the problem reached him, he rushed from the players' lounge, took his place and quickly flipped through the technically demanding part as the conductor, David Zinman, and the soloist, Christian Tetzlaff, walked onstage.
As a result, on August 6th BP decided to shut down the oilfield America's largest, accounting for 8% of domestic production until 16 miles (26 km) of pipeline could be fixed.As word of the problem rippled through world oil markets the next day, the price of crude jumped 2%, to reach almost $78 a barrel in London.
In an e-mail, a Post spokeswoman said it received word of the problem Monday, when Randy Lovely, the Arizona Republic editor, sent an e-mail to Marcus Brauchli, the Post's executive editor, and to the paper's ombudsman, noting "striking similarities" between Post and Republic articles about Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in the shootings in Tucson in January.
Word of the problem started spreading across blogs and Twitter on Sunday after Mark R. Probst, the author of "The Filly," a gay western romance for young adults, posted on his blog that several gay romances, including his, had lost their sales rankings on Amazon.
Playing Mah Jongg is such a deeply rooted tradition among Jews that word of the problem in Florida even reached Israel.
Word of the problems was escalated to Aretae Wyler, chief administrative officer and general counsel of Atlantic Media.
In Washington, word of the problems began to percolate through the upper ranks of the I.R.S., though exactly how much was known — and by whom — is not yet clear.
