Since we had so much fun with the never-gonna-happen Red-Blue Button dilemma, I present to you the HR trilemma. A New & Improved puzzler with 50% more lemma!
You have been called to HR. You suspect one of your co-workers caught you reading this site during business hours on a company machine. Strictly verboten!
Your appointment is at 1 PM, so you head to the HR department, now the largest in all the company. There are three HR Employee Adjustments offices, behind door A, door B, or door C.
You know that behind one of the doors are two male Boomers, ready to retire, two of the last three holdovers of the now defunct Personnel Department. Behind another door are two fresh female HR graduates from a prestigious Ivy league university (82% female enrollment). And behind the third door in yet another female fresh graduate (which purple hair) and the third male Boomer, who drew the short straw and was tasked to train the fresh graduate.
The email says you are to show up at 1 PM and go into any of three offices, A, B, or C, and receive your talking to. Behind each door is a box of tissues, but only the rooms with females have fresh full boxes.
As you are arriving, one of the male boomers walks out of door B and leaves (for the day, and maybe forever, for all you know).
It should go without saying you want to maximize the chance of entering a room with a male Boomer. Which door do you now go in and why? No points without, as they say, showing your work. There will be no recognition for merely guessing a door. Say why you chose the door you did.
The answer tomorrow!
Many of you will get this. But I decided to remove the temptation to read ahead and avoid thinking. I won’t forbid use of AI, because I’m curious what answers these computer model would give, and on which platform.
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You go into door B. There is a 50% chance that door B was the one with two male Boomers, so if you go in there is a 50% chance of a good outcome.
If you choose not to go into door B, then, if it it was the door with the male Boomers, both A and C are bad. But on the other hand, if it was not the door with the male Boomers, then between A and C, one is good and one is bad. So choosing not to go in gives only a 25% chance of a good outcome.
Can I just self-identify as a black lesbian female?
@Brian, you might want to include something about your fetish for nubile white women in case they want you to prove it.
@Steve
Do black lesbian females have a penchant for nubile white women? If so, who doesn’t?
Should nubile white women be considered a Human Resource?
I would choose the third door because no matter what happens I would get some entertainment from watching the male boomer training the fresh female graduate with purple hair (perhaps nose ring too?) The entertainment could come from either one of those two in that situation.
I don’t know or have the patience for the math, or whatever it takes, to do this right. I figure boomer dude who walked out of Door B was behind there with purple-haired woke chick, got fed up, and bailed. Other boomer guys are either behind A or C.
Definitely pick the door that the Boomer just left. There are three Boomers, so the probability that the one you saw came from the two Boomer room is 2/3.
I asked an AI, and it had the same answer as me but with silly Bayes equations. Then out of curiosity, I asked how things would change if I saw a girl come out of the center room instead. It gave some more equations and concluded: “Thus the center door has only 1/3 chance of being the two-boomer room.”
Now I’m questioning whether I’m right _because_ that AI agreed with me at first.
This is easy, go in the door he came out.
Worse case only one young scold to give you a headache, and you can push back hard with no witnesses.
If lucky maybe there is only one boomer who has no one checking his work so he has less motivation to wreck your day.
Again no witnesses when you call B.S.
Grok agrees without the emotional component.
You haven’t given any information the beast sizes of the women involved, this being an important factor (as demonstrated by my Instagram feed, the algorithm knows all).