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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?
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Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday July 29 2016, @02:14PM
This whole thing smells like one of those word games where they purposely phrase the rules badly and then laugh at you when you're mislead into picking the wrong answer.
How *wouldn't* the initial placement of the car be random?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"