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From Yahoo News: To shed light on why humans often fall short of the best strategy with this kind of problem, scientists investigated pigeons, which often perform quite impressively on tasks requiring them to estimate relative probabilities, in some cases...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:10 PM • 13 Comments •
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After a lengthy trip that involved not just planes and trains, but automobiles as well, I made it back from San Francisco in one piece. Yay! The conference was a big success, both mathematically and socially. Saw lots of...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:28 PM • 4 Comments •
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Winter term classes started on Monday here at JMU, so I figure this is a good time to get out of dodge! I will be participating in the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco. Yay! And while I'm there...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:18 PM • 3 Comments •
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Science Magazine has now published a letter to the editor in response to the review, published in early October, of the big Monty Hall book. The letter writer is Simon Levay, of West Hollywood, California. Here it is in full:...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:39 PM • 19 Comments •
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Seriously! Go have a look. It seems my book The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brainteaser made the list! And to think I wasn't planning to do a blog post today. Browsing through the other...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:57 PM • 24 Comments •
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The trip to California went well. Suspiciously well, in fact, to the point where, even though I am now back home, I am still waiting for something to go wrong. I first became suspicious during the two-hour drive over to...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:54 PM • 10 Comments •
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For my San Bernardino readers, I will be flying out to California tomorrow to deliever one of the keynote talks at the big MAA meeting. The talk will be at CSU San Bernardino at 9:00 am on Saturday morning. Nine...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:02 PM • 7 Comments •
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And mostly favorably, too. You might need a subscription to read the review, alas. The reviewer is Donald Granberg, a sociologist (now retired) at the University of Missouri. He published several papers on the MHP during the nineties. I liked...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:27 PM • 6 Comments •
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You can imagine my dismay upon discovering that I had forgotten to deposit my latest Netflix offerings in the mail. Bereft of quality home entertainment to take my mind off the looming return of the students, I hopped into the...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:50 PM • 34 Comments •
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The Big Monty Hall Book just got a favorable review in The Columbus Dispatch. The reviewer is Rob Hardy. He writes: Indeed, some of the chapters here are full-power mathematics, with unknowns x, y and z, summation or conditional probability...
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Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:16 PM • 6 Comments •