When someone famous with a reputation of always being right is suddenly wrong, there's a scramble to be the one who corrects them. It's a point of pride and fam

When someone famous with a reputation of always being right is suddenly wrong, there's a scramble to be the one who corrects them. It's a point of pride and fame. The Monty Hall problem is particularly troublesome because the statistical connection is for some reason counterintuitive and difficult to grasp unaided, even for experts. Being that rare person who just gets it right away means that you'll have a lot of people thinking it's you who have misunderstood. So in this case I'd say that this kind of reaction was rather normal (albeit with a sexist bent in a number of the responses).