Although it gained fame as part of a game show "Let's Make A Deal" hosted by Monty Hall, hence its name, the problem was first raised by Steve Selvin in American Statistician in 1975. It is also ...
Puzzles with counterintuitive solutions do more than challenge us. They expose how easily our fast, reflexive thinking can lead us astray. When the Monty Hall problem was first posed by Marilyn Vos ...
Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1577: The Monte Hall Problem Episode: 1577 The Monty Hall Problem and the unexpected value of information. Today, we learn not to turn our back on ...