The Monty Hall Paradox Strikes Again

The Monty Hall Paradox Strikes Again
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The classic Monty Hall paradox strikes again! The son is wrestling with one of probability theory's most counterintuitive problems. When given three doors with a prize behind one, and after choosing door #1, being shown that door #3 has nothing, switching to door #2 actually gives you a 2/3 chance of winning instead of 1/3!

What makes this extra hilarious is how the dad casually checks in on his son's game progress only to find him having an existential crisis over conditional probability. The mathematical truth defies our intuition so hard that even professional mathematicians got this wrong when it first appeared in a magazine column in 1990.

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