The Monty Hall Problem¶
Rosenhouse. (2009). The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brain Teaser. Oxford University Press.
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- Monty Hall problem
- Not a genuine paradox. Popular usage calls it the "Monty Hall paradox," but the result contains no contradiction: it is a veridical result — true, provable, and uncontroversial among probabilists — that merely violates intuition
This sourceThe standard book-length treatment, which works the mathematics classically and by Bayes and locates the difficulty in 'our cognitive difficulties in reasoning about uncertainty' rather than in any inconsistency; the 'veridical paradox' label is Quine's and would need its own citation.
- Not a genuine paradox. Popular usage calls it the "Monty Hall paradox," but the result contains no contradiction: it is a veridical result — true, provable, and uncontroversial among probabilists — that merely violates intuition
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