Comments on: Q&A: Deal or No Deal http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2008/01/dealornodeal/ The Math Factor Podcast Site Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:52:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 By: jlundell http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2008/01/dealornodeal/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:21:18 +0000 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2008/01/02/qa-deal-or-no-deal/#comment-290 Great article. It’s also got one of the nicest and most concise explanations I’ve seen of the MHP odds:

This answer goes against our intuition that, with two unopened doors left, the odds are 50-50 that the car is behind one of them. But when you stick with Door 1, you’ll win only if your original choice was correct, which happens only 1 in 3 times on average. If you switch, you’ll win whenever your original choice was wrong, which happens 2 out of 3 times.

]]> By: strauss http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2008/01/dealornodeal/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:40:10 +0000 http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2008/01/02/qa-deal-or-no-deal/#comment-287 This amazing article shows how monte hall problem has been hidden, unrecognized, inside of hundreds of cognitive science experiments, wrecking many experimental results.

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