i hope this leads to the scenario where someone is streaming kitsune tails and someone in the chat will be like "hey this is the monty hall problem!" and the streamer will be like "the what now" and then they'll look it up and go through half an hour of suffering
@eniko This may or may not have influenced me to add a similar thing to my game at a particular point, for the purpose of giving players who are aware of this trivia a 2/3 chance of seeing some alternate dialogue 😅
@eniko So many students in my discrete math class simply didn’t believe our teacher when the Monty Hall problem came up. His explanation was unsatisfactory I guess.
A number of them came to the next class having validated it themselves statistically, astonished.
@OffTheBooks my favorite way of explaining it is if you assume your initial choice was incorrect, Monty is showing you where the car is. So the odds of getting the car by switching is 1 minus the odds your initial choice was correct. With 3 doors it's 67%, with 10 doors it's 90%
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