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 ...

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 ...

It is still relevant. It's only relevant in guiding future actions...hence the Monty Hall problem. If you pick a door, and then Monty shows you what's behind another door, what should you do? You ...

The Monty Hall problem reveals how human intuition consistently fails under probability, and why switching doors dramatically increases the odds of winning.