John McKellar wrote:
> Call me stupid, but I've just heard the 3 door game show on a
> discussion about probability on radio BBC4's Material World, and I think
> it was also discussed by Mervyn Bragg (sorry very UK-centric) this week.
>
> My problem is I don't believe the discussion. BUT I suspect it's an old
> topic here, so rather than generate the same again;
> Does anyone have a clear discussion on the problem from last time?
>
> John
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> John McKellar
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Hi John,
maybe this can help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
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