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Article #1087Re: More Monty Hall
From: Mark A Biggar
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:29
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:29
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Lets formulate the problem slightly differently. Your are show two doors, D1 and D2. One of which contains a prize and the other a goat. 50-50 right. Ah, but now I tell you that it is twice as likely that the prize is behind D1 than it is behind D2. Do you still insist that because there are two doors it still a 50-05 pick? The extra rig-am-roll that Monty goes through (letting you pick one of three dorrs, then showing you that one of the other 2 doors has a goat) gives you exactly the same new information that the extra statement above gives you (i.e that it is twice as as likely that the prize is behind the door you didn't pick). Another way to look at it is like so: you decide to never switch and always stay with the door you picked first. As you have only a 1/3 chance of picking right door, you can win only 1/3 of the time. but that means that the alternitive (switching) must win 2/3 of the time. -- Mark Biggar mab@wdl1.wdl.loral.com
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!sgigate!sgi!wdl1!wdl39!mab From: mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar) Subject: Re: More Monty Hall Message-ID: <1992Dec23.212954.4781@wdl.loral.com> Sender: news@wdl.loral.com Organization: Loral Western Development Labs References: <1h4fbgINN5c5@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Dec21.214559.22343@berlioz.nsc.com> <1992Dec22.174608.24889@panix.com> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:29:54 GMT Lines: 19