When Everyone Corrected the World's Smartest Womanby@leinad520
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When Everyone Corrected the World's Smartest Woman

May 4th 2020
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by @leinad520 2,405 reads
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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.
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