The math problem that stumped thousands of mansplainers

The Monty Hall Problem went viral in 1990.

[senortapatio]

all of this is nonsense a car can't fit through a door...

[bradleyruest]

What does this have to do with "mansplaining?"

[goat]

You should change to the opened door, because thats where the goat is.

[backbencherbro]

and nowadays "You are the GOAT" is recognized as a compliment.

[benjames]

Strange. I remember when this video first came out with the title: The math problem that stumped thousands of mathematicians

[SlimThrull]

The solution is to bring a gun. When someone asks you if you want to switch doors, show them the gun. Tell them you'd just like the prize. This solution works 100% of the time.

(But also gets you arrested nearly 100% of the time, so yeah, don't try this.)

[stephenswenson]

I’m not gonna lie I thought the title said “mathsplainers”

[cf]

The key to understanding the Monty Hall problem: the revealed door is not random...

[Qancir]

The person that said she was a goat probably doesn't realize that goat means Greatest Of All Time

[bruhlanson]

3:07 an insult in 2016, a compliment in 2019

[bojo]

Cars provide a steady source of bills. Goats provide a steady source of income.
Pick the open door and retire on the milk alone.

[nth]

I manenjoyed manwatching your video. However, I had to manunlike it because of all the extra mantyping I now manhave to mando.

[collinprice]

numberphile did a video on this that WASN'T politically oriented

[Spatzna]

The best way I've heard of visualizing this is to imagine that you have 100 doors to choose from. 99 goats and 1 car. You choose door 47. Monty ignores you opens all doors except 47 and 62. What are the odds that your original guess, door 47, was right? Pretty low, obviously - that would be some guess. 1 in 100, to be exact. However, because Monty has to keep the car in the game, that means that 62 now has a 99% chance of being right. Apply the same logic to a 3 door problem, and you see it always makes more sense to switch. It's Monty's 'knowing things', and the futility of your random guesses, that makes it work.

[koichihirose]

Vox, do you mind explaining the “mansplainers” part

[ForumLight]

There's an easy way to realize you should switch every time.

If you pick door 1 and without showing you any other doors Monty says to EVERY CONTESTANT no matter which door you picked: "Would you like to keep door number 1, or take the combination of both 2 and 3?", no one would think twice: you'd take both doors 2 and 3 because you have 2/3 chance of winning the car.

Well that's precisely why you switch every time you are asked: he's showing you ONE of the two other doors and then asks you if you want the OTHER one of those two doors - or, as I said: "do you want your door, or the other two doors instead?"

[bshe]

Wait this is literally just conditional probability, there’s no way this stumped professors...

[staticvizn]

Bro just listen to which doors the goat sounds are coming from

[shipit]

3:52 Not entirely correct what you're stating there. It's 8% of RESPONDENTS that believed she was correct, not 8% of READERS. I would assume people are more inclined to respond if they disagree (just like I'm now responding because i disagree with what was stated in the video). You're not getting a fair representation of the population here.
Edit: typo

[EpicMind]

Why would you switch. Who wouldn't want a goat.