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How do people fair on unconventional structures? I am reminded of that old riddle involving a the mother being the doctor after a car crash.



No idea why you've been downvoted, because that's a relevant and true comment. A more complex example would be the Monty Hall problem [1], for which even some very intelligent people will intuitively give the wrong answer, whereas symbolic reasoning (or Monte Carlo simulations) leads to the right conclusion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem




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