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Monty Hall problem illustrated. In search of a valuable prize, the player chooses a door, say 1. The game host then opens one of the other doors, say 3, to reveal a goat and offers to let the player switch from door 1 to door 2.

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Monty Hall problem illustrated. In search of a valuable prize, the player chooses a door, say 1. The game host then opens one of the other doors, say 3, to reveal a goat and offers to let the player switch from door 1 to door 2.
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Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 05:56:10 JST Corey S Powell

The game show "Let's Make a Deal" offers useful lessons in how to evaluate claims about alien life.
It also shows how cutting basic research undermines our ability to make extraordinary new discoveries.
My latest Invisible Universe column:
https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/monty-hall-and-the-meaning-of-life #science #nature #math #aliens #space

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