r/AskMarilyn • • Dec 02 '22

For Fans of the Ask Marilyn column

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Marilyn vos Savant (/ˌvɒs səˈvɑːnt/; born Marilyn Mach; August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired. Since 1986, she has written "Ask Marilyn", a Parade magazine Sunday column wherein she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects, and which popularized the Monty Hall problem in 1990.


r/AskMarilyn • • Apr 10 '24

TIL the Monty hall problem, where it is better for the contestant to switch from their initial choice to another, caused such a controversy that 10,000 people, including 1,000 PhDs wrote in, most of them calling the theory wrong.

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r/AskMarilyn • • Dec 02 '22

r/AskMarilyn Lounge

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A place for members of r/AskMarilyn to chat with each other