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Generated interpretation, not documentary evidence. Three closed miniature doors with a toy car outside; probability-problem metaphor, not an outcome diagram.
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Why: A game-show probability puzzle that fooled mathematicians.
What to preserve: The problem, the 1990 Parade column controversy, simulations
Year and origin: 1975 · United States
Vote: 4/9 (historian 1 · future kid 2 · curator 1)
Learn more: Monty Hall problem on Wikipedia
Supplemental context
The Monty Hall problem shows why information-generating rules matter. In the standard formulation, a knowledgeable host reveals a goat behind an unchosen door and offers a switch; switching then wins with probability two-thirds. Future readers can compare this conditional reasoning with the tempting assumption that two remaining doors must be equally likely.
Creator/community: Steve Selvin and later discussants including Marilyn vos Savant; probability educators Place/era: United States; named formulation in 1975 and widely discussed in 1990
Context and limits
Three closed miniature doors and a toy car are only a metaphor, not a simulation or an actual game-show set. The stated probability depends on the standard host protocol, not every possible host behavior or episode of a television show. The picture does not encode the calculation.
Where to learn more
- https://apiarybee.com/community/reading/biggie-nu-series-008-noahs-ark-set-d-culture-2000
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
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Public ID and individual routes: pending publisher allocation. Internal source ID: D-0600
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