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Originally Posted by chalsall
What I consider is the most sad is so few understand statistics. Take, for example, the Monty Hall problem.
So few people understand that when given additional information (by a door being opened) their random guess should change to the alternative door. |
I'm loathe to draw conclusion based on Monty Hall. I've seen many formulations which are underspecified, and the actual practice on the show does not match the mathematical version generally/always presented, so this seems like a questionable example to generalize from.