You have just tested positive for a condition known to affect 1% of the population.  However, your doctor assures you that the test for this condition is only 90% accurate.  You’re not sure whether that’s supposed to make you feel better or not.  So, you tell me: assuming no other information, what’s the chance that you have the condition?
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You have just tested positive for a condition known to affect 1% of the population. However, your doctor assures you that the test for this condition is only 90% accurate. You’re not sure whether that’s supposed to make you feel better or not. So, you tell me: assuming no other information, what’s the chance that you have the condition? // Spiciness: *** out of ****

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Easy to visualize but challenging to solve: that's the kind of math puzzle you get here, one per episode. (Do you love the Car Talk Puzzler too? Yeah, that's what I'm trying for here, only with even more of a math bent.)

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