Re:The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman ...
by slavik81 on Sunday May 09, 2021 @04:47AM
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It matters whether they choose the door because it has a goat vs. they randomly choose a door that happens to have a goat.
It's not explicitly saying the former even when stating the result, because everything is written as a certainty in retrospect. You can say, "the roulette wheel stopped on 00," but it was still a random event when it happened.
> You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat
Remove the parenthetical example "say #3", and the parenthetical "who knows what's behind the doors" and that sentence reads: "...and the host opens another door which has a goat".
The "has a goat" is not a hypothetical example. It's a (both literal and explicit) declaration of the rules statement. The rules seem very clear that the host will open a door with a goat.