On how to pick goats from cars: The Monty Hall Problem

Re:On how to pick goats from cars: The Monty Hall Problem by dcurtis on Friday January 02, 2009 @10:27AM (#417366)

This is also explained well by Kevin Spacey in the movie 21.

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Re:On how to pick goats from cars: The Monty Hall Problem by samuel on Friday January 02, 2009 @12:28PM (#417461)

Also in a numb3rs episode. And Allen Paulos in one of his books outlines the script of a movie based in this game which could help to interest people in Mathematics.

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Re:On how to pick goats from cars: The Monty Hall Problem by timmorgan on Friday January 02, 2009 @11:34AM (#417404)

Not really. That was just enough to get me to read the Wikipedia article to figure out what the heck they were talking about in that movie. It made the student sound super smart, but most people I know didn't have a clue what they were saying (including myself).

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Re:On how to pick goats from cars: The Monty Hall Problem by dangrover on Friday January 02, 2009 @12:40PM (#417474)

Yeah. And what was that whole business about the Newton-Rhapson method?

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