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jibal on Sept 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probabilit...

This is goalpost moving that has nothing to do with the original point. If people misunderstand the conditions of the problem, that has nothing to do with intuitions about probability.

I won't respond further.

jonsen on Sept 30, 2020 [–]

> nothing to do with the original point.

Agree, but my point is that the Monty puzzle is a bad example to use educational if not careful.

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