[dba-Tech] The Three Doors Problem

stick with the original choice?  if you were wrong in the first place, they 
would have called you on it.

>From: "Arthur Fuller" <artful at rogers.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Hardware and Software 
>issues<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software 
>issues'"<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: [dba-Tech] The Three Doors Problem
>Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:04:08 -0400
>
>I am the host of a TV program and you are the guest. This is the deal: 
>there
>are 3 doors. Behind one of them is $100 million. Behind the other two are a
>dead catfish and a dead pickerel respectively. I invite you to select a
>door. You choose any one of the three: call it x I open another door, and
>say, Had you selected door y, you would have won a dead catfish. Now, would
>you like to stick with your original choice or switch to the other door?
>Does it matter? If not, why not? If so, why so?
>There is a clear answer to this problem. Who is going to be the first to
>come up with it?
>Arthur
>
>
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