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  Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The problem is also called the Monty Hall paradox; it is a veridical paradox in the sense that the solution is counterintuitive, although the problem does not yield a logical contradiction.
One common criticism of the Monty Hall problem is that the assumptions about the host’s behavior are not specified, such as when the original question was posed to Marilyn vos Savant in 1990.
The Monty Hall problem is discussed, from the perspective of a boy with Asperger syndrome, in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, a 2003 novel by Mark Haddon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monty_Hall_problem   (4598 words)

  
 Ritter's Crypto Bookshop
The author does explain in easy terms why some simple ciphers fail to hide information; these are often the same problems addressed by increasingly capable cryptosystems.
While basically mathematical in approach, it presents readable, detailed descriptions of real problems, often concerning sea action in WWII.
Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice, by W. Gilks, S. Richardson, D. Spiegelhalter.
www.ciphersbyritter.com /BOOKSHOP.HTM   (4194 words)

  
 Major Religions Ranked by Size
In modern Western thought, the first writers to divide the world into "world religions" were Christians.
A critical component of the spiritist influence upon the Yoruba traditions as practiced in the Western hemisphere is the pervasive influence of the BaKongo tradition, known as Palo Monte and Umbanda.
What I have seen in practice has a lot of Kardecian influence, but I expect to see what I observed with the Santeria tradition: that as one becomes more immersed into the actual tradition, that the outer layer of Catholicism peels away to reveal a tradition that, in reality, is very much unsyncretized.
www.adherents.com /Religions_By_Adherents.html   (11821 words)

  
 Explaining.Mind97: Chapter 3: Modularity
for example, the Monte Hall Problem; and tasks that are "cognitively
Cognitively IMpenetrable systems in the brain are thought to be
This is also the Chapter in which we encounter the Frame Problem.
www.ecs.soton.ac.uk /~harnad/Hypermail/Explaining.Mind97/0175.html   (541 words)

  
 Free IQ Test: Links to External Sites
This online version of the book by the same name is about 75 times larger and has some 80000 sequences that can be identified by entering just a few terms from anywhere in the sequence.
The infamous Monte Hall problem analyzed to perfection, with references to Marilyn vos Savant's Parade article (September, 1991) that produced 10,000 letters, most condemning her mathematical illiteracy, when, in fact, she had it right all along.
Online versions of Harvard Classics, Gray's Anatomy, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Strunk's Elements of Style and others.
www.onlinetests-iq.com /msc/iq_test_links.htm   (471 words)

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