Blogspiration is a weekly meme hosted by GrowingUpYA and Saz101. The meme was created to help spark inspiration among bloggers, readers and writers alike. An inspirational quote/picture/video is posted weekly, on the day of the author's choosing, so that it may inspire creativity, conversation or just a little SOMETHING.
Let's say you are given the choice between Doors # 1, 2, and 3, and one door has a cool prize behind it. You pick # 1, and the host opens door #3 for you because there is nothing behind it. Now you have the option - stick with door #1 or change your answer and pick #2. It seems like there is only a fifty/fifty chance so you might as well stick with your answer. But you shouldn't! If you change your answer, you are more likely to get it right. It's counter-intuitive, but the statistics support it. It's called the Monty Hall Problem.
I had a conversation with my co-worker recently about this and found it such an interesting truth. And even though I know it's true, it's still hard to understand why. I devote this blogspiration to logic problems - yay, it's awesome!
Derren Brown (my favorite illusionist extraordinaire) recently demonstrated the principle on one of his live shows. I will just place this youtube video here in case anyone is interested in being enlightened in a far more entertaining and hilarious way than reading this post. Keep in mind that he slips in a few subliminal words and ideas to help influence the choice.
I had a conversation with my co-worker recently about this and found it such an interesting truth. And even though I know it's true, it's still hard to understand why. I devote this blogspiration to logic problems - yay, it's awesome!
Derren Brown (my favorite illusionist extraordinaire) recently demonstrated the principle on one of his live shows. I will just place this youtube video here in case anyone is interested in being enlightened in a far more entertaining and hilarious way than reading this post. Keep in mind that he slips in a few subliminal words and ideas to help influence the choice.
And just in case the video's intro is a little long (about a minute or two), you can Click here to go right to the segment.
