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  1. #1
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    Default The Monty Hall choice; switch doors or not?

    Do you have an advantage by switching doors or not?
    Phil Plait is the original traitor of the Badastronomy group and a betrayer of science.

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    Default Re: The Monty Hall choice; switch doors or not?

    Big advantage to switch, if you're talking about the Marilyn vos Savant problem from her column.

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    Default Re: The Monty Hall choice; switch doors or not?

    Always switch

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    Default Re: The Monty Hall choice; switch doors or not?

    By the way here is the actual question:

    Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1 [but the door is not opened], and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

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    Default Re: The Monty Hall choice; switch doors or not?

    NO! Stay with door No1.

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    Default Re: The Monty Hall choice; switch doors or not?

    You just like goats?

 

 

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