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I think the answer is quite subtle. As Dave says: Then you have to sit down and calculate. I.e. analyse the possible outcomes and...

The naive analyst might wonder why you have it changing to ##\{ \frac{1}{3},0,\frac{2}{3} \}## and not ##\{ \frac{1}{2},0,\frac{1}{2}...

To put it another way, the contestant is presented with ##\{ \frac{1}{3},\frac{1}{3},\frac{1}{3} \}## but before a choice is made, the...

Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, as a rival to Wikipedia, which will be his own version of the truth! Which is very much my point...

I believe we are not there yet, but not enough people or organisations are prepared to fight the post-truth narrative. I openly admit...

I imagine that takes us out of the realm of elementary probability theory into game theory.

I believe that in the actual game show Monty had options other than "open a door and offer a switch", and was a skilled cold reader who...

I know we have to avoid specific politics on here, but AI is developing at a time when politics generally is losing all sense of truth...

Youtube now sports history that is entirely fictional. An example is this. It is easy to detect because the story isn't believable...

Did Bell get his idea from "these very puzzles"? Although the Game Show "Let's Make a Deal" (1963) predates Bell's Scientific American...

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

The expansion of space is a description of the overall geometry of spacetime across the whole universe. This is measured on the largest...

I can see no relationship between Monty Hall and Bell's theorem.

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I began teaching high school math and physics after graduating LSU in 1975. I taught in public, Catholic, and prep schools for about 30...