Friday, February 13, 2009

Why intuition isn't always reliable.



This is the same as Margin Gardner’s Three Prisoners problem, and is based on the earlier Bertrand’s box paradox (also known as the ”three-card swindle”).

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4 comments:

Karen said...

Is that related to the question of why common sense isn't so common?

spajadigit said...

Probably so. :)

Anonymous said...

Darn it! I picked the first goat!

spajadigit said...

Goats for all!