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by xboxnolifes 488 days ago
I find that the bad intuition on the monty hall problem is mostly due to the small delta of going from 1 in 3 doors to 1 in 2 doors, combined with some bad human intuition. If you change it to start with 1000 doors, I find it to be a lot more intuitively convincing.
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Same here, although I've talked to people who were equally confused with that formulation.