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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/coreyspowell/statuses/114796942134969581">Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 05:56:10 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell" title="coreyspowell@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/32826-48-20221119233213.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Corey S Powell" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Corey S Powell</a></section><article><p>The game show "Let's Make a Deal" offers useful lessons in how to evaluate claims about alien life. </p><p>It also shows how cutting basic research undermines our ability to make extraordinary new discoveries. </p><p>My latest Invisible Universe column: </p><p><a href="https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/monty-hall-and-the-meaning-of-life" rel="nofollow">https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/monty-hall-and-the-meaning-of-life</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/math" rel="tag">#math</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aliens" rel="tag">#aliens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" rel="tag">#space</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5303367#notice-10405897">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-07-05T05:56:10+09:00" title="Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 05:56:10 JST">about 8 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/114796942134969581" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/114796942134969581">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4889491">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.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/796/940/640/595/362/original/c9bb7736dc967d17.jpg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/796/940/640/595/362/original/c9bb7736dc967d17.jpg</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: substackcdn.com</div><h5><a href="https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/monty-hall-and-the-meaning-of-life">Monty Hall &amp; the Meaning of Life</a></h5><div> from <span>Corey S Powell</span></div></header><div>The famous game-show host was secretly teaching the public a powerful lesson about mathematical probability and the nature of evidence.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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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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  Monty Hall & the Meaning of Life
  from Corey S Powell
  The famous game-show host was secretly teaching the public a powerful lesson about mathematical probability and the nature of evidence.

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