If host is standing at a podium away from the three doors and opens them by means of a hidden switch, you don't have this additional information. This is supposed to be a probability problem; stop turning it into something it's not.
Shelley --- In [email protected], Rune Wesström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A lot of intuition! > You guess on door #1. The host is staying in front of door #3. Door #2 is 2 meters away from him, nevertheless he opens that door. What would you expect to find behind door #3? A goat?! (Let us exclude double-crossing!). > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stefan Pochmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 3:47 PM > Subject: [Speed cubing group] Re: (Off topic)3 doors... > > > Changing wins if and only if you initially chose the wrong door, i.e. > two times of three. > > Can you explain why your suggestion makes this wrong? > > Cheers! > Stefan > > --- In [email protected], Rune Wesström <rune. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In real life the host is Not staying totally symmetrically in > relation to the doors. (He is right-handed Or left-handed. Maybe he > has to take a halfstep to open a certain door etc.). If he now opens > the "easiest" door, Not changing wins more often than one time of > three. If he opens the other door, changing will win more often than > two times of three. > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/MXMplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
