Two Sigmas Deep, Given One

An assay lab weighs gold bars whose recorded weights are normally distributed around the true mean, and deviations on either side matter equally. A technician tells you only that your bar's reading landed more than 1 1 standard deviation away from the mean. Given that, what is the probability the reading is actually more than 2 2 standard deviations from the mean?

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