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Vos Savant mentions this, and she's kept track of who did and didn't understand the conditions: > And a very small percentage of readers feel convinced that th
by TotempaaltJ 3y ago
Vos Savant mentions this, and she's kept track of who did and didn't understand the conditions:
> And a very small percentage of readers feel convinced that the furor is resulting from people not realizing that the host is opening a losing door on purpose. (But they haven’t read my mail! The great majority of people understand the conditions perfectly.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20181118225305/http://marilynvossavant.com/game-show-problem/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181118225305/http://marilynvos...
- topaz0 3y agoNice find! I have wondered this. It's easy to say after you have come around that you had first misunderstood the scenario and done the math right in that context, even if in truth you (implicitly) understood the scenario but just neglected to account for the constraints.