The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman

When vos Savant politely responded to a reader’s inquiry on the Monty Hall Problem, a then-relatively-unknown probability puzzle, she never could’ve imagined what would unfold: though her answer was correct, she received over 10,000 letters, many from noted scholars and Ph.Ds, informing her that she was a hare-brained idiot.

What ensued for vos Savant was a nightmarish journey, rife with name-calling, gender-based assumptions, and academic persecution

Monty Hall er mjög fróðlegt dæmi um skilyrtar líkur, rétta svarið er á skjön við það sem langflestir halda.

[via CodingHorror á twitter]