Sometimes when dealing with probabilities, things don't always work out the way you might expect. My favorite example of this is the Monty Hall problem. The name comes from the game show Let's Make a ...
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Why switching doors doubles your odds on game shows
The Monty Hall problem reveals how human intuition consistently fails under probability, and why switching doors dramatically ...
Calculating probabilities can be tricky, with subtle changes in context giving quite different results. I was reminded of this recently after setting BrainTwister #10 for New Scientist readers, which ...
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