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- From: moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney)
- Subject: Re: More Monty Hall
- Message-ID: <BzoqDI.Kz3@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec18.165746.10294@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1h4fbgINN5c5@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Dec21.214559.22343@berlioz.nsc.com> <1992Dec21.230241.19209@colorado.edu> <1992Dec22.185741.9823@berlioz.nsc.com>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:53:42 GMT
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- worden@bouncer.nsc.com (Dennis Worden) writes:
-
-
- >|> The fact that the door which used to be closed is now known to be a loser
- >|> is new information. Specifically, if I guessed a goat (probability 2/3),
- >|> then he's now shown me where the winner is.
-
- >The fact that you now have an open door with a goat behind it does not
- >change the fact that you have 2 door and 1 prize. The opening of the
- >third door only tells you that the prize is not behind that door, it does
- >not add any information as to where the prize really is.
-
- It most certainly does! If you initially guessed wrong (2/3s chance) which
- door Monty opens tells exactly where the prize is, it's the door he didn't
- open! The other 1/3 of the time you initially picked correctly and the prize
- is behind your door. So it boils down to, 2/3 chance the prize is behind
- the door no one picked, 1/3 chance the prize is behind the door you initially
- picked.
-
- BTW, the game where the contestant does not make an initial pick so
- Monty starts things off by revealing a goat is not the same, as which door
- the contestant picks *determines* which door Monty picks, unless the
- contestant initially picks correctly.
-
- -Mike
-