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I posted exactly the same thing in a reply to you way earlier in the thread [1]. It didn't take so long to post, you just weren't paying attention.

> I would also argue most people who objected [etc. etc.]

I don't care about any of those people, the discussion was about Persi Diaconis.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43006185



> I posted exactly the same thing in a reply to you way earlier in the thread [1]. It didn't take so long to post, you just weren't paying attention.

I'm not asking why YOU took so long to respond or finding fault in your reasoning abilities, I'm saying there's been a lot of arguing in general in this sub-topic, and few people mentioned this fact -- which is the only relevant fact for challenging vos Savant's formulation of the problem (which matters because it's what sparked all this fuss).

> It didn't take so long to post, you just weren't paying attention.

This is the most dismissive possible thing to say, especially in response to a comment of mine where I'm conceding a point. I missed ONE other particular comment of yours, hence "I wasn't paying attention"? Wow. Sorry for not following your every response to everything.

> [...] the discussion was about Persi Diaconis.

I don't know nor care who Diaconis is, I just care about whether the Monty Hall problem truly was underspecified or not. This is about the Monty Hall problem, not about some person.




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