The NY Times has a nice article about psychology experiments. It turns out that many of the classic psychology experiments about cognitive dissonance may have been skewed because the experimenters did ...

Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those ...

Puzzles with counterintuitive solutions do more than challenge us. They expose how easily our fast, reflexive thinking can lead us astray. When the Monty Hall problem was first posed by Marilyn Vos ...

In 1990, a reader asked Marilyn vos Savant a deceptively simple probability question in her newspaper column. Her answer — that you should switch doors in the Monty Hall problem — sparked outrage ...

This is the second in a three-part series. See the first post here. Likelihood Neglect Bias and the New Monty Hall Problem In the first post of this series, I introduced a new cognitive bias—called ...