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A Brain Teaser of an Obituary

12 points by droidjj ago | 4 comments

quuxplusone |next [-]

Stop clickbait: Steve Selvin, originator of the "Monty Hall Problem," has died.

The obituary doesn't link directly to it, but Selvin's original letter-to-the-editor of "The American Statistician" 29.1 (Feb 1975) about the "Monte [sic] Hall Problem" is reproduced at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2683689 .

droidjj |root |parent [-]

"A Brain Teaser of an Obituary" was the original title of this article.

hughdbrown |previous [-]

Wow, this is a new one. If you try to look at this with the archive.is link [1], the article is covered with a pink-lavender suppository that obscures the text. If you try to remove it from the HTML with DevTools, it *automatically reappears*. I guess this is the latest step in the Paywall Wars.

[1] https://archive.is/rOVsN

gabrielsroka |root |parent [-]

I have a free account without a subscription. If you look at the original, it uses pink tombstone-shaped objects. That's probably what you're seeing.