My Yigo Challenge

[AV1611VET]

In your opinion, who is more apt to find Yigo:

1. Someone who believes Yigo exists.
2. Someone who believes Yigo doesn't exist.

As an added bonus, who is more apt to pronounce Yigo correctly?

 

[DogmaHunter]

What is a "Yigo"?

Who is more likely to see his horoscope being correct?
- Someone who believes in horoscopes.
- Someone who doesn't believe in horoscopes.

Who is more likely to feel better after taking a placebo?
- Someone who knows he's taking a placebo.
- Someone who thinks he's taking a real medicine, but is really taking a placebo


And what is the underlying point of your question?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

In your opinion, who is more apt to find Yigo:

1. Someone who believes Yigo exists.
2. Someone who believes Yigo doesn't exist.

Usually, neither is inherently more apt. A few things only exist if one believes in them (such as the placebo effect), and if Yigos are such things, then person (1) would probably be more apt.

As an added bonus, who is more apt to pronounce Yigo correctly?

The English; it's <YIE-goe>.

 

[AV1611VET]

In your opinion, who is more apt to find Yigo:

1. Someone who believes Yigo exists.
2. Someone who believes Yigo doesn't exist.

As an added bonus, who is more apt to pronounce Yigo correctly?

What is a "Yigo"?

The English; it's <YIE-goe>.

Thanks for the QED, guys.

 

[TLK Valentine]

And what is the underlying point of your question?

The point is that AV wants other people to do all the believing and work for him to pursue figments of his imagination.

 

[Cute Tink]

Does Yigo wear a red striped shirt and blue pants?

 

[Chany]

Does Yigo wear a red striped shirt and blue pants?

Wears glasses? A cap?

 

[PsychoSarah]

In your opinion, who is more apt to find Yigo:

1. Someone who believes Yigo exists.
2. Someone who believes Yigo doesn't exist.

As an added bonus, who is more apt to pronounce Yigo correctly?

Ha, you have run out of ideas for challenges, this is a repeat of an earlier one with a name change to make it look different.

 

[Michael]

In your opinion, who is more apt to find Yigo:

1. Someone who believes Yigo exists.
2. Someone who believes Yigo doesn't exist.

As an added bonus, who is more apt to pronounce Yigo correctly?

This sounds remarkably like a snipe hunt.

 

[AV1611VET]

Ha, you have run out of ideas for challenges, this is a repeat of an earlier one with a name change to make it look different.

Waldo is a cartoon.

Yigo is real.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Waldo is a cartoon.

Yigo is real.

As evidenced by the United States Air Force.

Those guys seem real enough to me.

 

[Chany]

In your opinion, who is more apt to find Yigo:

1. Someone who believes Yigo exists.
2. Someone who believes Yigo doesn't exist.

As an added bonus, who is more apt to pronounce Yigo correctly?

Who is more apt to find something?

Can I call it "Y"? It really is irrelevant who you put in place of "Yigo".

In other words, given the category of thing "Y", who is better able to find that a "Y" exists in reality, physical or metaphysical: someone who believes that a "Y" actually exists in reality, or someone who does not believe a "Y" exists in reality?

When we use the term "finding", there are two possibilities: finding evidence for "Y"s existence and believing to have found "evidence" for "Y"s existence. If someone already believes "Y" exists, they are more likely to believe they have found "evidence" for "Y"s existence. However, this is confirmation bias. Consider horoscopes again. A person who believes horoscopes are real is more likely to count the correlation between what the horoscope says and their lives as evidence for its existence.

However, anecdotes and occasional coincidences are not evidence, because not everyone agrees with anecdotes. Evidence must be demonstrable to others, whether this be physical evidence, logical syllogism, or mathematical proof.

In those terms, when trying to find valid evidence for the existence of "Y", both parties, if willing to open to all valid evidences, are able to find "Y", assuming "Y" does actually exist.

Please define "pronounce". Do you mean "define" or do you mean "discuss or tell about"?

 

[PsychoSarah]

Waldo is a cartoon.

Yigo is real.

Waldo is a drawn image which you can visually see and is real in that sense, and Yigo (the place, right?) again can be visually seen, and you have references that tell you what they look like. The bible doesn't tell anyone what god actually looks like, so you could walk right past god and not even know it, believer or not. Additionally, (the bible is a tad ambivalent about this though) it mig be that looking at god would end up killing the person, so it might not be in anyone's best interest to seek it out.

 

[AV1611VET]

As evidenced by the United States Air Force.

Those guys seem real enough to me.

-- What?

 

[Cute Tink]

-- What?

I think that was the point AV.

 

[AV1611VET]

Mamma mia -- the question is extremely simple.

Only a scientist can mess this challenge up this badly.

Please define "pronounce". Do you mean "define" or do you mean "discuss or tell about"?

After I posted this challenge,* I came to the conclusion I probably should have said "enounced."

But I underestimated my audience once again.

* Now you know why I call these things "challenges."

 

[AV1611VET]

I think that was the point AV.

The Air Force is in Andersen.

 

[Michael]

Yigo, Guam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[TLK Valentine]

The Air Force is in Andersen.

Andersen is the name of the base, not the location. It's 4 miles away from Yigo; on a clear day, you can see it from the tower.

And so your "challenge" is a bust -- I, who didn't believe it existed, was more apt to find it than you, who knew for a fact that it did.

If not for my correction, you'd still be at least 4 miles off.

Only AV can fail his own challenge this badly.

 

[AV1611VET]

Andersen is the name of the base, not the location. It's 4 miles away from Yigo; on a clear day, you can see it from the tower.

And so your "challenge" is a bust -- I, who didn't believe it existed, was more apt to find it than you, who knew for a fact that it did.

If not for my correction, you'd still be at least 4 miles off.

Only AV can fail his own challenge this badly.

Without even looking, I believe it is in Finnegayan (sp?).

But you're right, it is Andersen AFB -- not an AFB in Andersen.