Article 3RRPC Brain-aching list of counterintuitive probability riddles

Brain-aching list of counterintuitive probability riddles

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Cory Doctorow
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In 2017, Leila asked Stack Exchange for suggestions for counterintuitive probability riddles for a course on probability; the assembled list is a brain-aching adventure in Monty Hall problems, neighbors' daughters, Sleeping Beauty epistemology, colored lottery balls and birthday paradoxes. (more")

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