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> it doesn't matter because we don't get any additional information about whether our original choice was correct

That's the missing assumption. I would say assuming that people are perfectly random falls into the "standardized test" category.

> you won't get information, and you should still always switch and win 2/3 of the time.

You always get some information, the set of possible results becomes narrower, so saying the probabilities don't change is not sufficient. Not a good idea to discuss the problem in informal language though.




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