Ben McIlwain wrote:
geni wrote:
On 5/4/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
It looks a hell of a lot like using common sense.
[[Monty Hall problem]]. "Common sense" is not a valid justifcation for descission makeing.
For what it's worth I figured out the Monty Hall problem on my own with a simple experiment when I was younger, so don't say it tricks everyone, because it doesn't.
More to the point, the outcome of the Monty Hall problem is "common sense" once you understand it. Denying that staying will give you a better chance of winning when there are 9999998 doors with goats behind them open, when you've had it explained to you, is /not/ common sense. On Wikipedia there's a term for this sort of ignoring common sense - being a dick.