Edited by author 12-15-2006 05:14 AM
Am I a complete idiot in thinking that if you choose both, and there is a million dollars in the closed box, you will end up with $1,001,000.00 and if there isn't the million, you still have the thousand? if you choose the box with the $1,000.00, then, well, you have $1,000.00 and no chance at the million?

It doesnt make any sense to me as to why someone would choose anything but both. the decision you make will not affect what is in the empty/million box, so why not take that AS WELL AS the thousand box?

Is the purpose of the question then, to show that when given a question like this people either dont care about the question and are simply happy with monetary gratification, or want to try to outsmart the alien, don't care about the money at all, and want to be different from the past 999 people questioned?