The hubris of some of the her critics - especially ones with titles - is remarkable.
The Monty Hall problem is particularly troublesome because the statistical connection is for some reason counterintuitive and difficult to grasp unaided, even for experts. Being that rare person who just gets it right away means that you'll have a lot of people thinking it's you who have misunderstood.
So in this case I'd say that this kind of reaction was rather normal (albeit with a sexist bent in a number of the responses).
This is more of meritocracy run amok. I've got the fancy credentials which shows I'm brilliant, and I know it.
World renowned Harvard Philosopher Michael Sandel on The Tyranny of Merit: https://youtu.be/Qewckuxa9hw
> Maybe women look at math problems differently than men.
> “I still think you’re wrong,” wrote one man, nearly a year later. “There is such a thing as female logic.”
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140413131827/http://www.decisi...
> Women were "bosses" who "captured" men as "slaves" by marrying them. Divorced men were "liberated".
> People who stopped doing mathematics had "died", while people who died had "left".
> Music (except classical music) was "noise".
(Did boomers ever notice all their wife-based humor was about how much they hated theirs?)
Probably, because the husband-based humor was the same.