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Monty rule problem (lemmy.world)
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[-] Enkrod@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

You have Doors "Win" "Lose" and "Lose"

There is a 33% chance to pick a winning door and a 66% chance to pick a losing door.

If you pick one of the losing doors, the other losing door is revealed and switching gives you 100% success. That combines to 100% in 66% of cases.

If you pick the winning door one of the losing doors is revealed, switching gives you a 0% chance of success. That combines to 0% in 33% of cases.

Always switching gives you 66% chance of success overall. Always staying is betting on having picked the correct door when you only had a 33% chance of picking correctly.

For all the pedants out there: the remaining 1% is the chance of summoning the ghost of Monty Hall who then drags you to probability hell. Probably.

this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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