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Okay, let's go with your interpretation. Monty has now randomly chosen a door, and not revealed a car. If he had revealed a car you would have changed doors to
by Tomminn 6y ago
Okay, let's go with your interpretation.
Monty has now randomly chosen a door, and not revealed a car. If he had revealed a car you would have changed doors to it and won. But he didn't.[0]
Now you have a choice to make.
His probability of not revealing a car in the case that both doors you didn't pick had goats behind them, is 100%.
His probability of not revealing a car in the case that one door you didn't pick had a car behind it, is 50%.
We can reason then, that of the three possible scenarios for the two non picked doors {g,c}, {c,g}, {g,g}, that it is equally likely now that since he didn't randomly reveal a car, {g,g} must be weighted twice as much as the other two.
Therefore, we must be as likely to have a goat behind the remaining door as we didn't.
In conclusion, Monty only changes the problem if he selects with information.
[0] Notice that at this point, we have to throw away from the decision tree 1/3 of the histories, and in all of them switching was beneficial. In what remains then, switching is less beneficial than it was before this trimming.