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The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (2015)
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot.
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Society, Policy & CultureHistory & Retro Computing2021
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| May 9, 2021 | The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (2015) by jasonhansel | 211 | 303 |
| Feb 25, 2024 | Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem (2015) by hecubus | 101 | 316 |
| Feb 20, 2015 | Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem by ryan_j_naughton | 96 | 142 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 4 different people, from Jan 2017 to Feb 2025.
Most recent:
- MR4D · Feb 10, 2025
- brianmcc · Nov 24, 2021
- freefriedrice · May 13, 2020
- invaliduser · Jan 2, 2017
