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Comment by dmurray

This seems identical to the Monty Hall problem, except that the typical telling of the Monty Hall problem elides an important detail: that Monty knows which door conceals the car and intentionally always picks one that conceals a goat.

With that omitted (on Wikipedia [0], it's omitted in both the introduction to the page and the "canonical" reader's letter it quotes), people correctly conclude that their chance of winning doesn't go up by switching doors.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

parent dmurray 9 years ago

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