We’ll take them at their word that they’ve truly narrowed the variables to tuna and house sauce (i.e. they’ve eaten a meal consisting of only tuna and house sauce and gotten sick, but everything else has been properly eliminated), and thus the only logical options are T, HS, or T+HS.
They said they ate 8 times and got diarrhea 8 times, the only way to be sure it’s one of them is to eat at least once without those ingredients and not get diarrhea
They said they got diarrhea 8 times over 8 bowls, but they never said how many ingredients they used.
Assume nine ingredients: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i
Bowl 1: a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h + i: Diarrhea
Bowl 2: a: No diarrhea
Bowl 3: b: No diarrhea
Bowl 4: c: No diarrhea
Bowl 5: d: No diarrhea
Bowl 6: e: No diarrhea
Bowl 7: f: No diarrhea
Bowl 8: g: No diarrhea
Bowl 9: The one the OP is referring to, which could have h, i, or h + i
That’s a perfectly feasible if disgusting way to have a bowl from a poke truck if you’re doing it solely for an experiment. And that’s just one setup; there are more convoluted ones you could do that have fewer ingredients but mixed together so your bowls aren’t just one combination. I just chose the counterexample that’s easiest to construct mathematically.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We’ll take them at their word that they’ve truly narrowed the variables to tuna and house sauce (i.e. they’ve eaten a meal consisting of only tuna and house sauce and gotten sick, but everything else has been properly eliminated), and thus the only logical options are T, HS, or T+HS.
TheYojimbo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They said they ate 8 times and got diarrhea 8 times, the only way to be sure it’s one of them is to eat at least once without those ingredients and not get diarrhea
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They said they got diarrhea 8 times over 8 bowls, but they never said how many ingredients they used.
Assume nine ingredients: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i
Bowl 1: a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h + i: Diarrhea Bowl 2: a: No diarrhea Bowl 3: b: No diarrhea Bowl 4: c: No diarrhea Bowl 5: d: No diarrhea Bowl 6: e: No diarrhea Bowl 7: f: No diarrhea Bowl 8: g: No diarrhea Bowl 9: The one the OP is referring to, which could have h, i, or h + i
That’s a perfectly feasible if disgusting way to have a bowl from a poke truck if you’re doing it solely for an experiment. And that’s just one setup; there are more convoluted ones you could do that have fewer ingredients but mixed together so your bowls aren’t just one combination. I just chose the counterexample that’s easiest to construct mathematically.
TheYojimbo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah that’s what I meant, 100% diarrhea means they eliminated nothing. Sorry I should have phrased that better.