When Everyone Corrected the World's Smartest Woman

Written by leinad520 | Published 2020/05/04
Tech Story Tags: python | learning-to-code | problem-solving | programming | coding | python-basics | the-monty-hall-problem | hackernoon-top-story

TLDR When Marilyn Von Savant answered the Monty Hall Problem correctly in 1991, she was inundated with over 10,000 letters from academics and Ph.Ds criticizing her “error” The answer is that you will win 2/3 of the time by switching. I wanted to try writing the game in Python to see if I really win around 6,667 times (2/3) by switching, by switching the answer. The results were 6547, 6603, 6714, 6738, and 6738. All within 1% from the expected 6,000 wins. The Intuitive Solution is the Intuitive solution.via the TL;DR App
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Written by leinad520 | nestwallet.xyz | Prev. @ Draper Associates, Point72 | ksydaniel.com
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/05/04
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