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This result reminds me of a paper I read last week via Andrew Gelman's blog [1]. It's a very thorough review of the, so called, bat and ball problem and is an up to date summary of something brought to many people's attention via Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. As other commenters have suggested, the most reasonable explanation for the mathematicians to get this problem wrong is something more like carelessness than a lack of logical reasoning ability.

[1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/04/21/now-heres-...