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Misadventures In Conditional Expectation: The Two-Envelope Problem

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Several fallacies of conditionalization are illustrated, using the two-envelope problem as a case in point

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  1. Mathematics Department, University of Tennessee, 121 Ayres Hall, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A, 37996, 1300

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Wagner, C.G. Misadventures In Conditional Expectation: The Two-Envelope Problem. Erkenntnis 51, 233–241 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005488325727

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