“The original answer defines certain conditions, […] Anything else is a different question.”

—  Marilyn vos Savant

Regarding ambiguity in her famous statement of the Monty Hall problem. "Ask Marilyn" column, Parade Magazine, 17 February 1991, p. 12.

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