Tag: counterintuitive results

• The Monty Hall Problem: Why Switching Doors Doubles Your Chance of WinningYou pick one of three doors and the host opens a goat door. Enumeration and Bayes' theorem both push the win probability from 1/3 to 2/3, and we go on to biased hosts and n doors.MathematicsMathematical ColumnsHigh school / generalprobabilityconditional probabilityBayes theoremcounterintuitive results~28 min