Monty Hall

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1770413]

Explanation

I have known what the answer was for ages, but for some reason it only "clicked" in my head today. You can blame sarahs_muse for triggering it.

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I prefer my solution. chuma insists that it's a fair bet, so let's treat it like one.

Flip two coins. If both are tails, no money changes hands. If both are heads, you give chuma £1. If only one is heads, he gives you £1.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Your solution is yet again not what was discussed or offered, nor is it an accurate description of the raptor puzzle. At this point when your own evidence proves you wrong, you seem to be doing the equivilent of sticking your fingers in your ears and repeating "I can't hear you".

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I genuinely do not know what you think I've done to deserve your infantile behaviour.

You've called me stupid and demanded an apology for being correct, and then stopped responding entirely in that thread when I proved that yes, my answer was correct and yours was not.

Here, we have a question that was acknowledged to be ambiguous almost immediately after it was posted, and the ambiguity was corrected, and you're still, hours later, stamping your feet and launching personal attacks because we keep telling you you're answering the wrong question.

Seriously, what makes you think this is even slightly appropriate behaviour?

[chuma.livejournal.com]

What has caused it? Your attitude and the way you come across. You still think you are correct and answered the same question even though in your "clarification" (which was never given to me, but to Andy in a different section) you still contradicted yourself within a few lines. You're still incapable of acknowledging you didn't phrase keys parts of either question right, and instead prefer to bang on answering what you thought you had said, even when there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary. What makes you think THAT behaviour is appropriate?