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by ordu
846 days ago
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It changes. Monty's behaviour influenced by his knowledge were the car is. He is leaking information. It is a probabilistic leak: if you first picked by a chance the only door with a car, then Monty is free to open any of remaining doors. But if you had chosen a door with a goat, then Monty has no choice at all, he must open the only door with a goat that you didn't pick. It is a leak. From other hand if Monty picked a door by random, he would not leak his secret, but he might open a door with the car accidentally. |
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Yes, but the fact that the problems never mention this possibility makes it pretty clear to me that, from the contestant's perspective, it is guaranteed that this will not happen. The original problem even mentions that Monty Hall knows what's behind the doors, which gives a clear idea of how this guarantee is implemented (versus, say, the contestant's memory being wiped and the game reset every time a car is revealed).
The language of the problem is still ambiguous, of course, because all human language is ambiguous. It could be that the car is a Hot Wheels car and the goat is actually a more valuable prize. We could quibble endlessly about the ambiguity of the problem statement, but I personally find the mathematical problem of the traditional intended interpretation more interesting.