[QUOTE=kladner;472960]I am going out on a limb, here. Why isn't the answer "three"?
[CODE]G1 G2 G3[/CODE]Goose 1 has 2 behind. Goose 3 has 2 in front.[/QUOTE]:tu:

That was my immediate answer but, there again, I'm weird.

[QUOTE=kladner;472960]I am going out on a limb, here. Why isn't the answer "three"?
[CODE]G1 G2 G3[/CODE]Goose 1 has 2 behind. Goose 3 has 2 in front.[/QUOTE]

I had immediately concluded the same, and surmised from the context of his post, and the post-anecdote comment ("it didn't last long") that 3 is in fact the correct answer, and the laughing was because he was smart enough to miss the "obvious" one but not enough to get it right the first time :smile:

Of course, the answer was 3. That is why "everybody laughed" and what "[the happiness] it didn't last long" meant... The fact is they were all laughing and I was thinking they are laughing because I was clever... It took me minutes (and hints from the conversation that was going on around me at the time) to understand the error. Before, I was quite convinced I was right, hehe... I thought you guys know to read my posts by now :razz:

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[QUOTE=rogue;473850][URL="https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/12/05/left-handers-have-advantage-sports-high-time-pressure-12239"]Left-Handers Have Advantage In Sports With High Time Pressure[/URL][/quote]
They also have an advantage as baseball pitchers, as long as the batters they face are predominantly right-handers. That's why MLB pitching staffs have a disproportionately high % of southpaws.

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Um, via something called 'memory'? Just throwing it out there...

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[QUOTE=ewmayer;475234]They also have an advantage as baseball pitchers, as long as the batters they face are predominantly right-handers. That's why MLB pitching staffs have a disproportionately high % of southpaws.
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Um, not true? In a same handed matchup, the pitcher has the platoon advantage, while in an opposite handed matchup, the batter has the advantage.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;475269]Um, not true? In a same handed matchup, the pitcher has the platoon advantage, while in an opposite handed matchup, the batter has the advantage.[/QUOTE]

I may well have misremembered the reason(s) I heard for lefty-pitcher advantge way back when in my little-league days. Reading up on it by way of refresher, the difficulty in stealing (from first, the most-commonly-occupied base, especially between 1st and 3rd, 2nd being in the 'neutral' position w.r.to lefty and righty pitchers) off a lefty pitcher makes much more sense.

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