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Originally Posted by sufur
"It's a Monty hall problem. You're always supposed to switch."
I read the smirk as either deliberately getting it wrong to mess with reynold or thinking he was right and smirking because he knows it will mess with Reynold.
This. He wanted airtime and to mess with Reynolds. There's no name for this choice.
So what are you supposed to do, make up something ******ed like, "Clearly it's a Mayshaque Onslaught. You should therefore choose the 3rd tray 80% of the time, and the 2nd tray 20% of the time." Then you just sound like you're FOS.
So you think of the thing it most closely resembles, like the Monty Hall problem, hope that Reynolds has vaguely heard of it, switches, and picks something awful. Now whether this was Cochran's actual thought process or not, I don't know, it could have gone either way.
Regardless, it was a good move, since it did get him airtime, reinforces to 99% of the viewing audience that he's really smart, and leaves the remaining 1% talking about him for days.