slightly on topic, as we're always making a deal.....Monty Hall Has Passed Away.

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96 years old. A pretty good run.

Will he be remembered most for the "Monte Hall problem"?

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

"The problem is a paradox of the veridical type, because the correct result (you should switch doors) is so counterintuitive it can seem absurd, but is nevertheless demonstrably true."
Lance.

....................But Vanna White is still going strong............

Pete

Condolences to the family.... he had a good show and a good life. 96 is a good run.... Cheers, RickO

We watched the reruns on Game Show Network when they were showing them a few years ago. He once opened the show with a 1907 High Relief $20 that became one of the prizes. It was from Bowers & Ruddy. I can't remember the value- I think he said it was in the $3000 range.

@golden said:
Remember those $1000 bills that he gave away?

Just goes to show what was available to collectors back then, currency, at least. It was a good time.

Pete

@cmerlo1 said:

@lkeigwin said:
96 years old. A pretty good run.

Will he be remembered most for the "Monte Hall problem"?

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

"The problem is a paradox of the veridical type, because the correct result (you should switch doors) is so counterintuitive it can seem absurd, but is nevertheless demonstrably true."
Lance.

The TV show Mythbusters did a segment about this and tested it. They determined it was much better to switch.

from the Wikipedia article on Monty Hall - he did not always give the contestants the choice to switch:

Hall gave an explanation of the solution to that problem in an interview with The New York Times reporter John Tierney in 1991.In the article, Hall pointed out that because he had control over the way the game progressed, playing on the psychology of the contestant, the theoretical solution did not apply to the show's actual gameplay. He said he was not surprised at the experts' insistence that the probability was 1 out of 2. "That's the same assumption contestants would make on the show after I showed them there was nothing behind one door," he said. "They'd think the odds on their door had now gone up to 1 in 2, so they hated to give up the door no matter how much money I offered. By opening that door we were applying pressure. We called it the Henry James treatment. It was 'The Turn of the Screw.'" Hall clarified that as a game show host he was not required to follow the rules of the puzzle as Marilyn vos Savant often explains in her weekly column in Parade, and did not always have to allow a person the opportunity to switch. For example, he might open their door immediately if it was a losing door, might offer them money to not switch from a losing door to a winning door, or might only allow them the opportunity to switch if they had a winning door. "If the host is required to open a door all the time and offer you a switch, then you should take the switch," he said. "But if he has the choice whether to allow a switch or not, beware. Caveat emptor. It all depends on his mood."