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Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons 142

Lanxon writes "An architecture and design firm called Choi+Shine has submitted a design for the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition which proposes giant human-shaped pylons carrying electricity cables across the country's landscape, reports Wired. The enormous figures would only require slight alterations to existing pylon designs, says the firm, which was awarded an Honorable mention for its design by the competition's judging board. It also won an award from the Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture competition."

Comment Re:The only true answer... (Score 5, Informative) 159

This is what I thougth exactly.

I defined some probabilities to the various options:
Always thruthful: 100% a
Random: 20%a, 20%b, 20%c, 20%d, 20%e
Always lying: 25%a, 25%b, 25%d, 25%e
Sometimes truthful sometimes lying: 12.5%a, 50%b, 12.5%c, 12.5%d, 12.5%e

We can make a nice matrix to determine the actual percentages, assumed everybody votes 'how they are supposed to'.

The folks who never vote cause a little problem as we don't know how many of them there are. So now the matrix is overdetermined.
I left out the last equation to be able to get some results.

With the current voting percentages this is what I calculated:

Always truth
Random
Lying
Somtimes
%Current percentages

          A R L S %
          1 0.2 0.25 0.125 33
          0 0.2 0.25 0.500 35
          0 0.2 0.00 0.125 12
          0 0.2 0.25 0.125 11

          1 0 0 0 22
          0 1 0 0 20
          0 0 1 0 -4
          0 0 0 1 64

This means 22% always votes correct, 20% always votes random, -4% always lies and 64% sometimes true, sometimes false.

This seems a plausible result!

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