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- From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
- Subject: Re: More Monty Hall
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.160356.15304@panix.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:03:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.165746.10294@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1h4fbgINN5c5@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Dec21.214559.22343@berlioz.nsc.com> <1992Dec21.230241.19209@colorado.edu> <1992Dec22.185741.9823@berlioz.nsc.com>
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- In <1992Dec22.185741.9823@berlioz.nsc.com> worden@bouncer.nsc.com (Dennis Worden) writes:
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- >The fact that you now have an open door with a goat behind it does not
- >change the fact that you have 2 door and 1 prize.
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- True, however there is not equal probability associated with those two
- doors. Stop and think a little, Dennis. Or come out to NYC, design an
- experiment yourself, and we'll have a little wager.
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- >Or put it another
- >way, if you consider this new information on the same puzzle, why do you
- >freeze the probability of the original guess at 33%?
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- This is really far-fetched. You make a selection of one door out of three.
- The probability that you chose correctly is 1/3. Why would this change? It
- is not a question of "freezing the probability" It is the 50/50 crowd that
- plays games.
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- Monty equivalently says: "You can have the door you chose, or BOTH doors
- that you did not chose" without opening anything. Now would you switch?
- It is the same problem.
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