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Monte Hall and Cognitive Dissonance
Category: Behavior • Mathematics
Posted on: April 8, 2008 12:27 PM, by Dave Bacon
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The money quote: “I doubt that his critique will be all that influential for the field of cognitive dissonance more broadly.”
Independent proof of CD?
Posted by: Pieter Kok | April 8, 2008 3:26 PM
Pieter, there are a variety of other lines of evidence for the existence, nature and extent of cognitive dissonance so it isn't like that this point will that large an influence on matters. It doesn't take any cognitive dissonance to think that. Indeed, I suspect that if this phenomenon were not confirmed by other lines of evidence someone would have noticed this problem already.
Posted by: Joshua Zelinsky | April 8, 2008 7:59 PM
What's interesting about the article is that the answer goes against our intuition that, with two unopened doors left, the odds are 50-50 that the car is behind one of them. Your first guess has a one in three chance of being right, but the second happens 2 out of 3 times.
What do you think?
Posted by: Michael Bacon | April 8, 2008 8:21 PM