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And in fact a Bayesian approach, by being explicit about conditioning information, helps to show the “trick” behind the Monty Hall problem: when Hall opens a door, he reveals information about what’s behind the other two doors that the contestant didn’t have when he made his initial choice. The probabilities change in response to this new information.


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