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Monty Hall and the ‘Leibniz Illusion’ (amstat.org)
2 points by ColinWright on March 30, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This is worth reading.

We all know the solution and a Devlin style reasoning was intuitive and convincing enough for me.

But the author has a point:

"In fact, these prior probabilities are completely irrelevant ..."

(did not know that Leibniz got a very basic probability wrong)




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