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Further reading This is an article I have written elsewhere: Grey, W. Modelling the Global Carbon Cycle, Issue 10, October 2019, p 72-75

The Monty Hall problem is a probabilistic puzzle that confounds lots of people including a Nobel laurate in physics apparently! The Monty Hall problem is based on a TV quiz show and is stated in this way: A player is presented with three doors and behind one of the doors is a prize. The aim of the game is for the player to select the door with the prize behind. Of course, the player does not know which of the doors the prize is behind.   The player guesses which of the three doors the prize is behind. At that point one of the doors which the prize is not behind and which has not been selected by the player is opened. So now there are two closed doors. The player is then asked whether they wish to stick with the door that they selected or switch to the other remaining closed door. Intuitively we think of the problem like this.   Originally there is a one in three chance of us selecting the correct door.   Then one of the doors is opened and then it appears the prob...