Like Orgazmo, anytime I see this show it makes me completely puzzled about how stupid people are. Once I was watching it with my mother. It came down to like two briefcases one with 75,000 and one with 100,000. The guy was offered 85,000 for his briefcase and my Mom was going on and on about how they should just take that offer and be happy. I tried to explain to her the expected value of everything, and that if the contestant took this deal several times in their life, they would be giving up $2,500 in value each time, but my Mother is very illogical, and each time she just kept saying "Oh, just take the money and quit risking it!" Anyway, point of the story is, it pisses me off how illogical some people are.
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