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Subject: Re: Monty Hall problem-proof

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 16:33:19 10/05/02

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On October 05, 2002 at 17:50:15, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On October 05, 2002 at 15:39:08, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On October 05, 2002 at 15:35:37, Zach Wegner wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.cut-the-knot.com/htdocs/dcforum/DCForumID3/206.shtml
>>>
>>>Shows why all of the math community chose what they did... and why most of it is
>>>wrong
>>
>>Can this be discussed in CTF, please?
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>Better yet, can it be dropped completely?

Of course not.

At first sight the problem seems to be off-topic. But it isn't. The Monty Hall
Dilemma shows what can be done with statistics and what can't be done! That is
on-topic herebecause we have our main statistics system, the SSDF, which is not
proving what it predends to prove. Mainly to test the strength of the machines.
But the test methods are wrong and they test and prove that the learning is
important or that the best machines are the strongest and all such "nonsense" we
already knew before. THerefore Monty Hall is a good statistical training
problem!

Good weekend!

Rolf Tueschen



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