The Monty Hall Problem

[denny]

Some friends bent my brain yesterday with a thing called 'the Monty Hall problem' - I thought I'd share the sheer confusion with others...

Description of problem, and ensuing discussion (including lots of explanations which may either help or hurt your head, or possibly both):
http://www.livejournal.com/users/duranorak/790534.html?thread=4120070#t4120070

An off-site explanation, also linked in the above discussion but posted separately here out of sheer helpfulness (I still didn't get it after reading this personally):
http://www.io.com/~kmellis/monty.html

Comments

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wish I'd cut and paste it in retrospect, if only to separate the intuitive solution confusion from the helpful explanations :)

That said, most of the helpful explanations only seemed to confuse the matter more for me. It's quite amusing trying to explain it to someone else once you've figured it out, and watching them look blankly at you and realising you can't explain it comprehensibly either :)