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Subject: Re: Monty Hall problem-proof

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 17:04:39 10/05/02

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On October 05, 2002 at 19:33:19, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>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

Deal with Computer Chess, the Monty Hall Problem is an exception, rather than
the rule..

Terry



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