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Ep. 249 - The Sleeping Beauty Problem

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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The Probability of Monday Versus Tuesday Is Very Relevant to the Problem

There are three possible times to get woken up. Are they all equally likely? Well, I guess we could say they are equally likely because she has no information other than she's being woken Up. And so you can immediately see how this might relate back to Monty Hall because there's some possibly counterintuitive stuff going on here. The probability of Monday versus Tuesday is very relevant to the problem.

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