Thursday, 11 May 2023

Paradox discussion - Monty Hall and Sleeping Beauty

We discussed the Monty Hall problem and the Sleeping Beauty problem in class on Wednesday 10/5/23.  The following videos and web pages provide some information on the two problems:

Monty Hall Problem

YouTube videos

Numberphile - Monty Hall Problem: https://youtu.be/4Lb-6rxZxx0

Wireless Philosophy - Probability: The Monty Hall Problem  https://youtu.be/_X5erR9LKUs

Web pages

Khan Academy: The Monty Hall problem: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/probability-library/basic-theoretical-probability/v/monty-hall-problem 

Wikipedia - Monty Hall problem:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

Sleeping Beauty Problem

YouTube videos

Wireless Philosophy - Epistemology: The Sleeping Beauty Problem: https://youtu.be/5Cqbf86jTro

Julia Galef - The Sleeping Beauty Problem: https://youtu.be/zL52lG6aNIY

Veritasium - 193,340 People Agree With Me, 85,660 Disagree: https://youtu.be/XeSu9fBJ2sI 

Web pages

1000 words philosophy - The sleeping beauty problem: https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2019/06/15/the-sleeping-beauty-problem/ 

Wikipedia -Sleeping Beauty problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_problem


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