Monty-hall-problems

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monty-hall-problems

Title text: Actually, pretty much everything beyond intro calculus is run by goblins.

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Suppose you can pick door a, door b, or door c. Two doors hide a goat. One hides a prize.

You pick one, then the host reveals that one of the other doors hides a goat.

Switching won't

Wrong. If you switch, you get a two in three chance to find the prize.

Improve your odds from being 50-50.

Should you switch?

How?

When a math problem has an obvious answer that is actually wrong it's because tiny green

Math goblins.

Goblins invaded the universes fabric of logic and screwed around with it.

Did you know that 0.9999. Exactly equals one?

I think you're just

No, dammit! Nobody believes me!

Making up fantasies

To paper over your

Lack of math

Education.

Nuh uh.

Math goblins.

Later

If you have 24 people in a room,

Two of them probably

Share a birthday.

No! Nooo:

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