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Psychology of reasoning

a conditional probability puzzle, equivalent in structure to the Monty Hall problem, on which most people misjudge whether a guard's answer changes their chances.

In psychology of reasoning, three prisoners problem refers to a conditional probability puzzle, equivalent in structure to the Monty Hall problem, on which most people misjudge whether a guard's answer changes their chances. This meaning comes from Shimojo (1989) in Cognition.[1]

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Shimojo, S., & Ichikawa, S. (1989). Intuitive reasoning about probability: Theoretical and experimental analyses of the “problem of three prisoners”. Cognition, 32(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(89)90012-7

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