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diggernet on Oct 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious

In your example, the host didn't get to choose their door, which kept them from choosing goat. As I follow this discussion, the key is the knowledge that given a choice, the host will pick a non-winning door. If the host can't choose, you lose the benefit of that fact.

kgwgk on Oct 8, 2020 [–]

Of course. I was replying to someone who says that the host could pick randomly and it wouldn’t change anything.

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