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Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem

posted by janrinok on Friday July 29 2016, @10:27AM   
from the something-to-think-about dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

Do any of you have any noteworthy experiences where knowledge of math helped you in an unusual way?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

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• I never believed the 2/3 switch... I never believed the 2/3 switch... (Score: 4, Interesting) by RamiK on Friday July 29 2016, @11:05AM

  by RamiK (1813) on Friday July 29 2016, @11:05AM (#381483)

  This is the first time I saw the wikipedia entry and I have to say, seeing it took a computer simulation to convince Erdős makes me feel a little better about my lack of intuition.

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• Re:I never believed the 2/3 switch... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @10:03PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @10:03PM (#382854)

  Why do you assume he was good with probabilities?

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