How I Finally Understood the Famous Monty Hall Problem

Lessons I learned from the brain teaser that almost broke me

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5 min readApr 5, 2021

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Imagine you are the contestant on a game show. There are three doors that you can choose from. Behind two of them are goats. Behind one is a new car.

Setting aside the possibility that some people prefer goats to new cars (what you do in your…

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