From the Wikipedia page devoted to the “Monty Hall problem“: Suppose you’re on a game show like “Let’s Make a Deal,” and you’re given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a new car; behind ...

Your guides to the weird side of the web explain the Monty Hall problem and the math of probability.

The NY Times has a nice article about psychology experiments. It turns out that many of the classic psychology experiments about cognitive dissonance may have been skewed because the experimenters did ...

Sometimes when dealing with probabilities, things don't always work out the way you might expect. My favorite example of this is the Monty Hall problem. The name comes from the game show Let's Make a ...

Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those ...

Puzzles with counterintuitive solutions do more than challenge us. They expose how easily our fast, reflexive thinking can lead us astray. When the Monty Hall problem was first posed by Marilyn Vos ...