They need to get married.Idiots the both of them lol
Thanks for the translation
I believe your correct, though perhaps overcomplicated it. The first die doesn't actually matter to 'doubles', any of its faces can be part any resulting double. The only factor is that the second die must land on the same side as the first so a 1/6 right there.Ehh.... 1/6? There are 6 sides on each die, power it by 2 because we have 2 dies, there goes 36 combinations.
Favorable outcomes are (1, 1), (2, 2), ..., (6, 6), therefore we have 6 favorable outcomes.
6 / 36 = 1 / 6.
Maybe. 😭
Some people don't get statistics and probability though. Many don't understand the difference between "what are the odds you'll flip 50 heads in a row" and "after flipping 49 heads in a row what are the odds of the next flip being a head".I believe your correct, though perhaps overcomplicated it. The first die doesn't actually matter to 'doubles', any of its faces can be part any resulting double. The only factor is that the second die must land on the same side as the first so a 1/6 right there.
this is tricky because eliminating the door makes people believe that suddenly they are in a completely new situation and they have to choose one of 2 doors, when in reality it's allowing them to choose - simultaneously - ALL of them, except the one they selected at first.Some people don't get statistics and probability though. Many don't understand the difference between "what are the odds you'll flip 50 heads in a row" and "after flipping 49 heads in a row what are the odds of the next flip being a head".
Myself, I can't get my head around the Monty Hall problem. Just because you're shown that one of the unselected doors is the booby prize why does it make the other unselected door have a 2/3 probability of winning and the selected door only a 1/3 probability of winning? My mind will not budge off of 50/50. I can see the results empirically at Better Explained, but still... The best explanation for me: "To lose by switching you would have had to have picked the good door the first time, which only has a 1/3 chance."
I still think "To lose by switching you would have had to have picked the good door the first time, which only has a 1/3 chance (of happening)." is more intuitive. (I will grant you that it is not a rigorous explanation.) KNOWING something is right and FEELING something is right can sometimes be two different things. It is so "obvious" that when all of those bad n-2 doors were removed that you only have two doors remaining so each has an equal chance of being the winner. When you can fix in your head that the chance you picked the right door in the first place was 1/n and switching would win in all other (n-1)/n cases then it's a little more intuitive.this is tricky because eliminating the door makes people believe that suddenly they are in a completely new situation and they have to choose one of 2 doors, when in reality it's allowing them to choose - simultaneously - ALL of them, except the one they selected at first.
to unpack it:
with 100 doors it's even easier to understand (and math stays the same) - you have a choice between a single door with 1/100 chance, or 99 doors with 99/100 chance in total.
- you pick one door essentialy at random. each individual door has 1/n chance of success (1/3 in original game). other, unselected doors combined have (n-1)/n chance of winning, 2/3 in original game.
- eliminating all/all but one duds from unselected doors and allowing you to switch is the same as changing the rules to "you can switch to select all of these n-1 doors, and if there's a prize in one of them you win" - from math pov it's exactly the same thing.
- your choice comes to staying with your initial single door with 1/n chance, or switching to n-1 doors, each of which had initially 1/n chance also - but you get n-1 of them instead of only 1. so with 3 doors, you have your initial single door with 1/3 chance, or you can switch it for 2 doors, each with 1/3 chance, for a total of 2/3 probability of winning
hell lets use lotto with same rules as another example (because math will be the same again) - you select numbers, and have 1 in millions/billions chance of winning the grand prize. switching door in this case is esentially allowing you to switch your coupon to a grand prize for all numbers EXCEPT the one you initially selected.
Let's use a bigger number to visualize it easier. Say, 100 doors.Some people don't get statistics and probability though. Many don't understand the difference between "what are the odds you'll flip 50 heads in a row" and "after flipping 49 heads in a row what are the odds of the next flip being a head".
Myself, I can't get my head around the Monty Hall problem. Just because you're shown that one of the unselected doors is the booby prize why does it make the other unselected door have a 2/3 probability of winning and the selected door only a 1/3 probability of winning? My mind will not budge off of 50/50. I can see the results empirically at Better Explained, but still... The best explanation for me: "To lose by switching you would have had to have picked the good door the first time, which only has a 1/3 chance."