monty-2
Original: monty-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with light, swept-back hair): Okay so imagine there are two doors. Behind door A there's a goat. Behind door B there's a Ferrari. You have selected door A. Wach to repeat, has a goat. Should you switch?
Woman (at laptop, glasses): I... hold on. I gotta code up a simulation.
Caption below the comic:
Pro Tip:
if you do any variation on the Monty Hall problem, no matter how stupid, a mathematician will assume the solution is counterintuitive.
Votey:
Woman (thought/speech): It's stable at switch, but let me run it for a few more days before I commit.
(She sits hunched and exhausted at her desk, head down, a small "c" sound near her.)
Man (with light, swept-back hair): Okay so imagine there are two doors. Behind door A there's a goat. Behind door B there's a Ferrari. You have selected door A. Wach to repeat, has a goat. Should you switch?
Woman (at laptop, glasses): I... hold on. I gotta code up a simulation.
Caption below the comic:
Pro Tip:
if you do any variation on the Monty Hall problem, no matter how stupid, a mathematician will assume the solution is counterintuitive.
Votey:
Woman (thought/speech): It's stable at switch, but let me run it for a few more days before I commit.
(She sits hunched and exhausted at her desk, head down, a small "c" sound near her.)
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. In the first panel, a man with light swept-back hair leans toward a woman wearing glasses who is seated at a laptop. He poses a contrived probability puzzle: behind door A is a goat, behind door B is a Ferrari, she has selected door A, and one revealed door has a goat, so should she switch? In the second panel the woman replies that she has to go code up a simulation to figure it out, taking the simple riddle far too literally. A caption beneath reads: 'Pro Tip: if you do any variation on the Monty Hall problem, no matter how stupid, a mathematician will assume the solution is counterintuitive.' The votey (bonus panel) shows the same woman now slumped exhausted at her desk, having gone deep down the rabbit hole, saying: 'It's stable at switch, but let me run it for a few more days before I commit.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.