Some Thoughts on Advertising Terminology

[Tad Carlucci]

The "2/3" odds are the odds that I, being greedy, keep the Mysterious offspring for myself and sell you a Curious offspring which hides Mysterious. But for a given Curious cat I do sell you, the odds are 1/2 that it contains Mysterious.

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This dichotomy is why sellers feel traits get spread around so fast. The odds are strong that you'll sell someone else the genetics in your "failures" even through the odds are "even" they'll actually receive the genetics.