🧮 Math

In the Monty Hall puzzle, switching doors doubles your chance of winning.

Pick one of three doors; the host opens another to show a goat. Switching wins 2/3 of the time. When Marilyn vos Savant explained this in 1990, about 10,000 readers, including nearly 1,000 with PhDs, wrote in, most saying she was wrong.

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