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Craig F. Whitaker

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The reader from Columbia, Maryland, whose 1990 letter to Parade magazine sparked the modern controversy over the Monty Hall problem. By clearly articulating the three-door scenario in his question to Marilyn vos Savant, he provided the standard framing for a puzzle that would temporarily embarrass thousands of academics.

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