Solution to the sleeping beauty problem: 1/2. Why? HEADS monday (A) / coin flip < \ TAILS monday (B) tuesday (C) A, B and C are NOT independent cases as it might seem and suggest the 1/3 answer, because cases B and C aren't independent: if B happens, C happens as well and vice versa, if C happens, B happens as well. So B and C are in fact a single outcome. Whether we are awoken at B or C is just a subcase of TAILS and is irrelevant to reasoning about the coin flip. The credences are therefore: A = HEADS = 1/2 B = C = 1/4 = TALIS / 2 TAILS = B + C = 1/2 HEADS + TAILS = 1 Imagine the modified case in which TAILS awakes the bauty a million times. Would this make the probability of coin landing HEADS 1/1000001? Certainly not. There will be a million more cases of awakening for TALIS, but we can imagine these happening simultaneously, as a single awakening, since all of the 1000000 awakenings are 100% correlated. The probability of correctly guessing the sequence number of awakening in the TAILS case will be 1/1000000 but that's a completely different question, the original question asks about the coin flip credence, which is 1/2.