it is all just terminology perhaps all this argument is about nothing but terminology does anyone disagree with any of the following statements it is assumed throughout that the car is placed randomly the players initial pick is random and that the host always opens an unchosen door to reveal a goat the probability of winning by switching given that the player has picked door and the host has opened door is between and depending on the hosts door preference this is clearly a conditional probability the probability of winning by switching given that the player has picked door and the host has opened door is between and depending on the hosts door preference this is clearly a conditional probability the probability of winning by switching given that the player has picked door and the host has opened one of the unchosen doors is for all host preferences morgan call this the unconditional case maybe this is where the confusion arises the probability of winning by switching given that the player has picked a door and the host has opened one of the unchosen doors is for all host preferences the probability of winning by switching on average for player who switch is for all host preferences you're right and notice that in case opening one of the unchosen doors is not a condition because it is part of the rules of the game the only condition if you would consider the full model there is the initial picking of door in case there is no condition at all in the full model and hence it is the same as case but notice that in the mhp a specific door has been chosen and a door opened i continue here the difficulty is what we do mean by probability if you mean an average over all cases in which any door has been opened there is as i mentioned no condition if you mean a door has been opened but i do not know which one and i want to average over all cases concerning the same door the answer depends on the door and is a number between and i do not quite agree with you if we average over all cases where a door has been opened but you do not know which one the answer is if we include all possible host strategies in our average the only way to get an answer other than is to average over cases where the host has a fixed strategy and the same door is opened every time nijdam do you see the connection with my simple problem in which a prize is placed behind one of two doors and the player then picks a door if the player picks randomly the probability of winning is if the player has picked just one specific door then the probability of winning depends on the initial prize placement who else agrees i agree with and i find and somewhat ambiguous without further clarification for example i don't know precisely what you mean by for all host preferences i would agree with the following revised versions by 'for all host preferences' i mean regardless of whether the host policiy is to always open door where possible always open door where possible choose randomly where there is a choice or employ any other method of deciding which door to open within the stated rules the probability of winning by switching given that the player has picked door is the probability of winning by switching given that the player has picked a door is the probability of winning by switching on average for players who switch is these are clearly unconditional statements that say nothing about the player deciding after the