Puzzles with counterintuitive solutions do more than challenge us. They expose how easily our fast, reflexive thinking can lead us astray. When the Monty Hall problem was first posed by Marilyn Vos ...

Calculating probabilities can be tricky, with subtle changes in context giving quite different results. I was reminded of this recently after setting BrainTwister #10 for New Scientist readers, which ...

Engines Podcast The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1577: The Monte Hall Problem Episode: 1577 The Monty Hall Problem and the unexpected value of information. Today, we learn not to turn our back on ...

The host invites you to pick a door, any door. Let’s say you pick door one. The host throws open one of the doors you did not select, revealing a goat. Then the host gives you the option of switching ...