Choosing the game show door

Contributed by Dan Erichsen


You have made it to the final round of a game show and you're presented with three doors. Behind one of them is fame, fortune and a white Volvo, there is nothing behind the other two doors.

You pick a door at which point the showhost opens one of the other two doors revealing that it is empty. You now have a choice of whether to stick with the door you originally picked or should you change to the remaining unopened door.

Should you change your mind or stay with your first choice? Or does it matter at all?


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