Tir Wrote:It's better if you think about the other 100 doors example: There are 100 doors, you pick one, and 98 doors are opened revealing pineapples. So there's the door you picked, and the door that's left. We can both agree that before the other doors were opened, you had a 1% chance of picking the right door. According to you, afterward, you have a 50% of getting the chinchilla if you stay. That means that your probability went up from 1% to 50% of picking the door with the chinchilla by doing nothing. This means that no matter door you picked at the beginning, you have a 50% chance of it having the chinchilla.



That last door DOES matter, even if you can't choose it, because you could have chosen it. Although you have 2 choices, there are still 3 doors to consider. You either stay with one of the 3 doors you picked, or switch after one of the bad doors was taken away.

Taking the 100 door example even further, let's you have an infinite amount of doors, 1 with a chinchilla, the rest with pineapples. The probability that the door you pick has a chinchilla is 1/infinity, or effectively 0. All doors except for the door you picked and the door with the chinchilla are opened, revealing pineapples. Knowing that the first door you picked has a pineapple, wouldn't it be smart to switch?

What I'm basically trying to say is having the contents behind another door revealed doesn't change the probability of what you picked before the contents were revealed. Otherwise, each of the 3 doors would have a 50% chance of being either pineapple or chinchilla, since a door that you will not pick will always be revealed to be a pineapple.

Kaasoljoyyx Wrote:Maybe this example will make more sense.

Let us say you are playing roullette and there are 10 evenly divided sections. The host tells you that one of the sections will get you $1 while the other slots will take your money away.

Let's say the marble lands on section #1. This has a 10% chance of being the section that will get you $1

Now, the host tells you that slots #3~#10 are all wrong and will give you no money. He gives you the option to stay on slot #1 or move your marble to slot #2.

If you stay on slot #1, your chance is still 10% as the board has not changed. It is still 1 of 10 sections that you chose from the beginning

Now, if you switch to slot #2, the only remaining sections are slot #1 and slot #2 so the chance of #2 being correct is much higher. This does not apply to slot #1 as you chose it from an initial 10 slots while switching has a variable of 2 slots maximum, but you cannot apply the 2 slot maximum rule to slot #1 as you didn't choose it from 2 slots but rather 10 slots.

The chart I showed earlier should have been enough as it showed all 6 possibilities. You choose one door and another one is eliminated, and you switch or stay. Maybe you're unaware that the host ALWAYS eliminates a bad door/situation and never the good one.

Devil's Sunrise Wrote:Think of it this way:

You first choose one of the three doors.
Now, he eliminates one bad door.
That would equal to choosing two doors if you now choose the other door.

TehMatt Wrote:So:
Choose A + Stay = Win
Choose A + Switch = Lose
Choose B + Stay = Lose
Choose B + Switch = Win
Choose C + Stay = Lose
Choose C + Switch = Win

C is struken since it was eliminated by the host, revealing it contained a . This makes the probabilty 50% chance of winning if you stay and 50% chance of winning if you switch.

AngelSL Wrote:It's 50%.

Because you already *know* that 1 incorrect door will be gone.

 chart listing out all the cases

TehMatt Wrote:Choose A + Stay = Win
Choose A + Switch = Lose
Choose B + Stay = Lose
Choose B + Switch = Win
Choose C + Stay = Lose
Choose C + Switch = Win

C is struken since it was eliminated by the host, revealing it contained a . This makes the probabilty 50% chance of winning if you stay and 50% chance of winning if you switch.

Devil's Sunrise Wrote:But at the beginning, you don't know which door that is!