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Yeah! That may actually be the gotcha - a deliberate ruse, depending on whether one trusts Monty to give away a whole car, or nah.

It's a Rorschach test. I would reject the switch because I am a paranoid person. ;-)

OK, a case of wrong logic leading to the right answer. IOW, Monty's actions are trying to help them win.

You could use the whole deck. The ace of spades is the prize and every other card is not. After the contestant chooses one card face...

Just to be clear. None of this is about "the contents changing". It is only about changing your estimate of the odds of doors having...

The real difference is between luck versus the sure thing of a rule. If Monte blindly opens a goat door, that is luck that changes the...

The only one I know as an example is the country song, "Walk My Walk", that recently won an award and was AI-generated. There was a big...

A few of us have come across other music or songs of that kind of quality, AND were made using artificial intelligence.

I think the sieve method is very good at explaining Monty Hall problem. On the otherhand I prefer another explanation, when the host...

Right. I'll leave it to anyone who knows Japanese to evaluate the lyrics.

If not AI, they might as well be. A weakness of AI songs is the lyrics, which I can not understand in these. AI lyrics seem to piece...

Only if the two options are equal probability, which they are not. Simply having two options does not mean that the probability is 1/2...

Except that you can be objectively shown to be wrong. The simulation in post 27 proves that switching doors will result in winning...

In the Monte Hall game, the player only has one choice that he does before Monte opens any door. So you don't think that Rule 2 and the...

Exactly. Good point. It is the "filtering" action of the rule that makes the difference. With the rule, you know that if the remaining...