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Johnnysteria
Posted in Statistics with tags France Inter, hysteria, Le Monde, national public radio, pop culture, pop music, rock'n roll on December 6, 2017 by xi'an
Monty Hall closes the door
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags competition, conditional probability, game show, Monty Hall, Monty Hall problem, paradoxes, pop culture, Stigler's Law, The New York Times, USA on October 1, 2017 by xi'an
Among much more dramatic news today, I learned about Monty Hall passing away, who achieved long lasting fame among probabilists for his TV game show leading to the Monty Hall problem, a simple conditional probability derivation often leading to arguments because of the loose wording of the conditioning event. By virtue of Stigler’s Law, the Monty Hall game was actually invented earlier, apparently by the French probabilist Joseph Bertrand, in his Calcul des probabilités. The New York Times article linked with the image points out the role of outfits with the game participants, towards being selected by the host, Monty Hall. And that one show had a live elephant behind a door, instead of a goat, elephant which freaked out..!
