The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (2015)
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The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (2015)
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#2Which public intellectual introduced Monty Hall to the public when awareness of the problem was at a similar low, and received the fewest incorrect responses?
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#3Is "Vos Savant" her real name? It's kind of a giveaway.
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#4The hubris of some of the her critics - especially ones with titles - is remarkable.
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#5Is "Vos Savant" her real name? It's kind of a giveaway.
It actually is the family name on her mother's side, though she changed it to that back from her mother's married name (Mach).
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#6I guess it shows for those who wrote her about female logic that it was, in fact, they who were overly swayed by male logic.
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#7Is "Vos Savant" her real name? It's kind of a giveaway.
Her mother was Marina vos Savant.
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#8Is "Vos Savant" her real name? It's kind of a giveaway.
Vos Savant is her mother's maiden name, which she chose to use over her father's.
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#9I guess Monte Carlo simulations weren't well-known or easily accessible back then? It would have been the perfect way to shut up her critics.
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#10The hubris of some of the her critics - especially ones with titles - is remarkable.
It won't be long before we see some here I predict.