{"id":452212,"date":"2025-06-03T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=452212"},"modified":"2025-06-03T22:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T22:12:27","slug":"this-youtube-video-explains-the-error-in-the-math-of-the-paper-most-commonly-cited-to-disprove-heating-up-i-absolutely-cannot-wrap-my-head-around-it-are-there-any-math-people-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=452212","title":{"rendered":"This YouTube video explains the error in the math of the paper most commonly cited to disprove \u201cheating up\u201d. I absolutely cannot wrap my head around it. Are there any math people here that are able to explain it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1l2nuja\/this_youtube_video_explains_the_error_in_the_math\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/srHOK8pcwtM6Wx1ZXSTMKKEK1YBjPbj5mraXLBoURZ4.jpg?width=320&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=52c9980c40f9231eda1c83cc3294d0af5d54eecf\" alt=\"This YouTube video explains the error in the math of the paper most commonly cited to disprove \u201cheating up\u201d. I absolutely cannot wrap my head around it. Are there any math people here that are able to explain it?\" title=\"This YouTube video explains the error in the math of the paper most commonly cited to disprove \u201cheating up\u201d. I absolutely cannot wrap my head around it. Are there any math people here that are able to explain it?\" \/> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td> <!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>The section of the video that deals with the math is titled \u201cA Coin Flip Simulation.\u201d It starts at 10:40. The guy mentions that it\u2019s a version of the Monty Hall Problem, which I do understand, but I can\u2019t intuit how the two problems are similar. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Jumboliva\"> \/u\/Jumboliva <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CR5vT44ZMK8?si=OAQoSOfrG14FJp1v\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1l2nuja\/this_youtube_video_explains_the_error_in_the_math\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The section of the video that deals with the math is titled \u201cA Coin Flip Simulation.\u201d It starts at 10:40. The guy mentions that it\u2019s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=452212\" title=\"This YouTube video explains the error in the math of the paper most commonly cited to disprove \u201cheating up\u201d. I absolutely cannot wrap my head around it. Are there any math people here that are able to explain it?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":452214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452215,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452212\/revisions\/452215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/452214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}