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    Quote Originally Posted by Kerberoz View Post
    This is what happens when children are taught to memorize instead of think.

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    no pic not related, i hate that game theory problem and will forever hate it. we spent an entire AP math class in high school arguing about it and i still hate the shit out of it, as much as I've thought about that problem 50% still makes more sense even though everything else in the universe proves it's 66%, i dislike that problem very very much.

    edit: also, the only people taught to use critical thinking as opposed to raw memorization are generally people in the science/math fields, which is probably most people on this forum and let's be honest we all understand that stupid people are a rampant problem but there's nothing we can do because thinking is hard and memorizing is easy

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    no pic not related, i hate that game theory problem and will forever hate it. we spent an entire AP math class in high school arguing about it and i still hate the shit out of it, as much as I've thought about that problem 50% still makes more sense even though everything else in the universe proves it's 66%, i dislike that problem very very much.
    Read the wiki page on it, and 50% will no longer make any sense at all.

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    That switching has a probability of 2/3 of winning the car runs counter to many people's intuition. If there are two doors left, then why isn't each door 1/2? It may be easier to appreciate the solution by considering the same problem with 1,000,000 doors instead of just three (vos Savant 1990). In this case there are 999,999 doors with goats behind them and one door with a prize. The player picks a door. His initial probability of winning is 1 out of 1,000,000. The game host goes down the line of doors, opening each one to show 999,998 goats in total, skipping over only the player's door and one other door. The host then offers the player the chance to switch to the only other unopened door. On average, in 999,999 out of 1,000,000 times the other door will contain the prize, as 999,999 out of 1,000,000 times the player first picked a door with a goat — the chance that the player's door is correct hasn't changed. A rational player should switch.
    Intuitively speaking, the player should ask how likely is it, that given a million doors, he or she managed to pick the right one. It's as if Monty gives you the chance to keep your one door, or open all 999,999 of the other doors, of which he kindly opens 999,998 for you, leaving, deliberately, the one with the prize. Clearly, one would choose to open the other 999,999 doors rather than keep the one.

    You cannot possible think 50% makes sense after reading that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hey View Post
    Read the wiki page on it, and 50% will no longer make any sense at all.

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    You cannot possible think 50% makes sense after reading that.
    no, i realize at this point that 66% is what logically makes sense, but after first being presented with the problem no matter how I had thought about it at the time (mind you I was like 15 then) 50% was what always came out of my logical thought processes and that was what sort of stuck if you know what i mean, sort of that hard to teach an old dog new tricks kind of thing, i realize that 66% makes sense but it was just at the time 50% was where i was lead by my brain and that's still how i approach the problem when i think about it (for whatever reason)

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    The correct answer largely depends on how the problem is presented.
    If Monte or whatever his name is KNOWINGLY opens a door that is incorrect you have a 66% chance when switching.
    If he RANDOMLY opens a door and it's empty, you have a 50% chance after switching.

    Pretend there are 1,000,000 doors. If he KNOWINGLY opens 999,998 wrong doors, would you stick with your original 1 in a million chance? Or switch to the one door he purposefully left closed?

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    What is that power rangers game and why don't I have it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaslo View Post
    What is that power rangers game and why don't I have it




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    Quote Originally Posted by Chrius View Post
    If he RANDOMLY opens a door and it's empty, you have a 50% chance after switching.
    No. It doesn't matter why he opens it. Your original choice has a 1/3 chance of being the car. The remaining two total to 2/3 (1/3 each before he opens a door). Once he opens a door, the two doors still have a 2/3 chance of hiding the car, except now one has a 0 chance, and the other has 2/3.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hey View Post
    No. It doesn't matter why he opens it. Your original choice has a 1/3 chance of being the car. The remaining two total to 2/3 (1/3 each before he opens a door). Once he opens a door, the two doors still have a 2/3 chance of hiding the car, except now one has a 0 chance, and the other has 2/3.
    Totes probs

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    Quote Originally Posted by shepardG View Post
    that computer is SUUUPER!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chrius View Post
    Totes probs
    I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.

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    I know someone who says totes. as in short for totally. I want to injure them everytime it hits my ears, but I can't so I wont.

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    You totes should.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chrius View Post
    Totes probs

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    Quote Originally Posted by SephYuyX View Post
    You totes should.
    I fell over and crushed my totes.

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    Those posters are fucking awesome.

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    totally lol. I can't wait for the incoming butthurt.

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    Source on those posters? They're pretty much works of art.

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    totally lol. I can't wait for the incoming butthurt.
    Why would there be butthurt? They're motivational posters for the protestors. lol@u

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    They were made by the awesome FRO Design.

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