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will107777: I know that's the reasoning behind its always better to switch, but it fails because it takes the stats from the original choice into account when making the second. Said another way, say same scenario, 3 doors, but BEFORE you pick I tell you door 3 is a goat...i assume all would agree that when you now chose between door 1 and 2 it is 50/50. That doesn't change if at first I picked door 1 and then told door 3 was a goat. In all scenarios in which you first pick 1 door of 3 there will be a door you didn't pick with a goat, 100% of the time...the host revealing this to you tells you nothing, other than the car is behind one of the two remaining doors.

so said another way, say I flip a coin and its heads. Would you give me 2:1 odds if I wanted to bet you the next flip would be heads? You shouldn't, because each individual flip is 50/50.
It's wrong to compare the original situation with showing the goat before the choice because in the Monty Hall problem the goat that the host reveals it does depend on your choice. In fact, in 2 of the 3 options he is forced to reveal a certain goat because you have chosen the other one and only in 1 of the 3 options he has the liberty to pick any goat as in your proposed scenario. So, second round is not independent from the first round.

Edit: And that'll be all from me on the topic.
Post edited June 27, 2014 by madth3
For those discussing the Monty Hall problem. Numberphile did an excellent video explaining it. By scaling the problem up to 100 doors the maths behind it becomes evidently more obvious, being a maths teacher this stuff is my crack!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lb-6rxZxx0

For those interested there's an extended maths version in the video description
Post edited June 27, 2014 by whatisserton
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Kunanaki: I really really hope they put out a Jagged Alliance pack, or sale for Jagged Alliance 2. I've been coming every day and have yet to see it via Flash or Bundle.
I don't believe either of those are part of the flash sale or bundle sale (they aren't adding any new ones, other than what has been seen).

However they are both 50% of and well worth it.
I need some advice from any of you experienced paypal users! I won't be getting paid until Monday, which is unfortunately the day the sale ends and I can almost guarantee my money won't be cleared in time. I have my paypal set up to go directly to my checking account and it usually takes four days to appear in my account. So my question is, could I potentially get away with getting the games I want before the sale ends and having paypal not charge me before my money goes through an hour or so later? I'm curious, and desperate XD if anyone knows how it works, much appreciated!!
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Kunanaki: I really really hope they put out a Jagged Alliance pack, or sale for Jagged Alliance 2. I've been coming every day and have yet to see it via Flash or Bundle.
Sorry, I think they have already been on sale, because I have both..
Post edited June 27, 2014 by phaolo
With regards to the Monty Hall problem, I recommend the book The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brain Teaser. I read a lot of books on recreational and paradoxical math, and this is a good one.
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Neverfree: I need some advice from any of you experienced paypal users! I won't be getting paid until Monday, which is unfortunately the day the sale ends and I can almost guarantee my money won't be cleared in time. I have my paypal set up to go directly to my checking account and it usually takes four days to appear in my account. So my question is, could I potentially get away with getting the games I want before the sale ends and having paypal not charge me before my money goes through an hour or so later? I'm curious, and desperate XD if anyone knows how it works, much appreciated!!
You probably would have to connect a credit card to your paypal account to get grace time from the time a transaction is done until the time you have to cover it with cash. In that case though it would be just as easy or easier to just buy the games from GOG with a credit card instead of using Paypal.

If you've no options that work out, you could always try to make arrangements with people in the GOG trading threads perhaps after the fact. Worst case, bank some money when you can and score games during the next promo season which should land in September or so, or Black Friday etc.
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Neverfree: I need some advice from any of you experienced paypal users! I won't be getting paid until Monday, which is unfortunately the day the sale ends and I can almost guarantee my money won't be cleared in time. I have my paypal set up to go directly to my checking account and it usually takes four days to appear in my account. So my question is, could I potentially get away with getting the games I want before the sale ends and having paypal not charge me before my money goes through an hour or so later? I'm curious, and desperate XD if anyone knows how it works, much appreciated!!
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skeletonbow: You probably would have to connect a credit card to your paypal account to get grace time from the time a transaction is done until the time you have to cover it with cash. In that case though it would be just as easy or easier to just buy the games from GOG with a credit card instead of using Paypal.

If you've no options that work out, you could always try to make arrangements with people in the GOG trading threads perhaps after the fact. Worst case, bank some money when you can and score games during the next promo season which should land in September or so, or Black Friday etc.
Yeah :( May unfortunately be my only option, as I have no credit card. There's paypals Bill me later, but I'm extremely hesitant to use that, I've heard bad things lol
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will107777: I think we will have to agree to disagree.
Then you are disagreeing with reality. It's no different than "scientifically" arguing that bumblebees can't fly.
Aquanox and Aquanox 2 in the back catalogue.... man I have to stop buying O_O
There is no agreeing to disagree. Switching does cause you to win twice as often, and can be demonstrated as doing so by actually playing the game a few hundred times. (Or better yet, get a computer to do it because it won't get bored.)

The Monty Hall problem actually asks you, "were you originally correct?" You pick a door, and have a 1/3 chance of being correct. You are then given a simple binary choice to switch or stick.

If you were originally correct (1/3 chance): Switch = lose, stick = win.
If you were originally incorrect (2/3 chance): Switch = win, stick = lose.
Thus, switching gives you a 2/3 chance to win. Sticking gives you a 1/3 chance to win.
ok ok I concede the statistics fight, I lose.

honestly I liked this board more when it was about GOG...werent they having a sale or something?
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will107777: ok ok I concede the statistics fight, I lose.
No, actually you win. Because you switched. :D
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will107777: ok ok I concede the statistics fight, I lose.

honestly I liked this board more when it was about GOG...werent they having a sale or something?
When there's down time during the sale (no giveaways, flash sales have repeated, and all the bundles have already been revealed earlier at the halfway mark), I think it gets kind of hard to find things to talk about. '~'

I'll try to segue this into a game discussion, though. Since we mentioned goats before...what do you think of trying to get Goat Simulator on GOG?
monkey island come back!!!