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The problem with this logic is that it applies regardless of how we model Monty, and not every model of Monty has you doing better than expected. This reasoning
by daveFNbuck 7y ago
The problem with this logic is that it applies regardless of how we model Monty, and not every model of Monty has you doing better than expected. This reasoning is just as wrong as expecting that your chances are 50/50 in the standard form of the problem.
- hinkley 7y agoI think my statistics prof would have said that they are dependent variables. That was the part that always tripped me up, and I see it trip up plenty of others so I'm in good company, but it's definitely part of my mathematical heartbreak. I loved math in high school and a series of unfortunate events and terrible curricula ruined calculus for me. All I have to show for it is that I have more sympathy for people who 'hate' math (even though I think it's fear sublimated into frustration), and a deep and abiding hatred for Stephen fucking Wolfram. Those italics on Mathematica became my proxy nemesis and I figured out how to break the autocorrect by editing the word just so.