#76-How mathematics can improve our lives and make us better critical thinkers-with guest John Allen Paulos
Thinking Clearly
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The Probability of Winning the Car Is One Third
If you chose door two, your original probability that that was correct is one third. But since the host opened a door behind which there's nothing, that two thirds probability now focuses on the remaining unopened door. So if you do switch the probability of winning the car arises from one third to two thirds. Just by the way, as an example of radio map, because that's probably hard to follow,. I'm sorry, but you should switch.
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