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Playtime Comments : [Vox] The math problem that stumped thousands of mansplainers

Sh****:

3:52 Not entirely correct what you're stating there. It's 8% of the RESPONDENTS that believed she was correct, not 8% of the READERS. I believe that 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 :) ), so you're not getting a fair representation of the population here.
Edit: typo

Da********:

3:08 "You are the goat".

If they only knew what goat means today. Yeah. The "greatest of all time"

br********:

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

Ll**********:

0:02,Me Too.

Es********:

3:07 that is a compliment

He*******:

3:06 I forgot that this used to be an insult and not a compliment

Ha*********:

4:41 whoa whoa whoa is that alan from qi?

No*************:

3:38 1989?

Br*********:

Brady Haran sighting at 4:33!!!

Mi************:

1:03 Its based on the fact that Monty Hall is going to always pick a door that has a goat. Teach people that and they will likely understand it better

 

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Top Comments : [Vox] The math problem that stumped thousands of mansplainers

Bo***********:

"Maybe women look at math problems differently than men." - this is man-explaining. (Don't be mansplainers, kids)

mo****:

that like to dislike ratio tho

bh********:

If I can still bring home the goat I selected, I've already won regardless of choice.

En********:

Schrodinger wants to know if the goat will be alive or dead?

Kr************:

Mansplaining...? We already have a word for this: condecension. There is no reason to replace this with something gender-specific.

Ga******:

I mean technically she is the GOAT

Hk********:

I always try to explain the problem by extending it. Instead of assuming three doors with two goats and one car, assume a hundred doors with 99 goats and one car. After picking a door (one chance of one hundred of picking the right one) the show host would open a further 98 doors revealing 98 goats. And now ask if the participant wish to switch door. It's much easier to get an intuitive feel for the odds this way as compared to using just three doors, this despite the question being the same.

Ma***:

mansplainers? really?

ay****:

Jokes on you, I’ll take the Goat rather than the car

Be******:

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

ps****:

Hmmm, how can I work feminism into this...

t.Vox

An*******:

Hearing "I hate math" as the video opens is a really good way to lose my attention.

Jo******:

Sounds like more people need to watch the movie, ‘21’

Sl*****:

Oh come on this is everywhere. How does this stump “mansplainers” more than anyone else?

Lu*********:

I think people are pretty justified in questioning this title. Savant was famous, and specifically for having a high I.Q. The answer she gave to this question seems counterintuitive to just about everyone. For my life I still can't comprehend why switching would improve the odds. So, a wave of mail telling her how she got it wrong is only to be expected given her reputation, and fame. Also women can send letters through the mail too. Why would you assume that it was just men who wrote her? The academic rejection is a mute point given that 70% agreed. Finally though, I take issue with the use of the word, "Mansplainers". If I disagree with another man, which I tend to do, he doesn't call me a "Mansplainer". The female narrator of this video also initially disagreed with Savant's answer. Is their a pejorative term to call her for disagreeing?

Im*****:

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

bk***:

"I have received a number of letters commenting on my "Letters to the Editor" in The American Statistician of February, 1975, entitled "A Problem in Probability." Several correspondents claim my answer is incorrect." -- Steve Selvin, after the original publication of the answer to the Monty Hall problem, about which this video claims that "no one argued with him."
So yes, plenty of people argued with him. I suspect the 10k letters might have something to do with Parade having a slightly higher circulation than The American Statistician.

Se********:

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

Jo***:

her "academic" stats are wrong since the only people likely to write to her are those who disagree with her. to state only 8% agreed with her is incorrect since the subject sample is biased.

Ra**********:

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

Cl********:

The big thing is that the host of the show knows which door the car is behind. If he doesn’t know which door has the car then the probability shouldn’t be allocating. I think that’s where a lot of people get confused. They forget that the host know which door the car is behind.

Cr*****:

Fighting sexism with sexism, great idea Vox.

Br*****:

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

fu*************:

Can we talk about the title? I feel like we need to talk about the title.

Et******:

If you put “mansplain” in a video, you have just destroyed your ratings.

Ve*******:

Saying there was sexism in the letters yet the title is literally sexist, the irony.

Pa*******:

What academics were disagreeing with her? English professors?

Ro*******:

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.

Iv*********:

Because the probability that you got a goat in the first place is higher, then you most likely have picked a goat, therefore by switching you will probably get the car, as it there is less chance that you got it in the first place. Simple as that. I don't know how they got to the actual probability, but it makes total sense.

Edit: now I do. Because to switch and be able to get a car you have to get a goat in the beginning, the chances you switch and pick a car are the same as the chance you get a goat in the first place.

Au*********:

I think it's easiest to look at it from an extreme example of this similar problem. Imagine 100 doors, 99 goats and then 1 car. A 1% chance of picking the Car. Now assume you always switch. If you choose the car first and switch you will lose. If you choose any of the 99 goats and then switch you will always win, because the host will remove all other goats (can't show the car). Thus by switching the only way you lose is if you had already chosen the car first (1% chance), and thus your win percentage is 99% with the switching strategy.

 

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