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Originally Posted by Ivan Viehoff
It is also the case that quite a large number of university mathematics professors fail to understand the Monty Hall problem
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Is that true? The closest I can find is this from NY Times:
"The experts responded in force to Ms. vos Savant's column. Of the critical letters she received, close to 1,000 carried signatures with Ph.D.'s, and many were on letterheads of mathematics and science departments."
which does imply some math professors either made a mistake, or found Vos Savant's mistake in stating the problem (mentioned in the same article
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...54C0A967958260
). I'm not so sure that "quite a large number" of math profs, especially now after Vos Savant made the problem famous, don't know the standard analysis.