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pinball1970 reacted to Roberto Pavani's post in the thread Undergrad Why the initial choice matters in the Monty Hall problem with
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I'm amazed by the length of this thread. In a sense, it confirms what I've often thought about statistics and probability: the rules... -
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The probability of a Monty Hall thread being only 2 posts long is substantially less than 1/3. -
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I really like this one. I realise it's the "stick only wins if you guessed right first time" explanation turned round a bit, but it... -
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I thought of another angle. Imagine the game is played simultaneously by three players, each with their own instance of the game. In... -
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Two points: 1) You can write a computer simulation of both games. And count how often the stick or switch decision wins. In one... -
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I disagree. In @Dale 's 100-door example, our selected door initially had a 1/100 chance of being the correct door. The other 99/100... -
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