Bacon wrote:David wrote:Reminds me of the argument I had with someone about doors and prizes...
You are asked to pick one of three doors. non-thinking player are behind two of them, and a new car is behind another.
After you choose your door, but before it's revealed to you, the presenter opens one of the doors you didn't choose and reveals a non-thinking player.
He then asks if you'd like to switch from your initial choice to the remaining closed door.
Do you switch?
Was it an argument you had, or had you just watched "21"??
Actually - no. Since then I have watched 21 though.
But I have known this probability question for a few years. After I learnt of it, I also saw it at the beginning of an episode of Numb3rs.
