Question for the smart people

[SleazyDream]

If you choose to answer this question at random, what is the chance you will correct?

a. 25%
b. 60%
c. 50%
d. 25%

[B.Barnato]

It's a paradox, like the Liar Paradox.

[SleazyDream]

Originally Posted by B.Barnato

It's a paradox, like the Liar Paradox.

no, it isn't.

[papill0n]

c.

#winning

[Colmike9]

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

If you choose to answer this question at random, what is the chance you will correct?

a. 25%
b. 60%
c. 50%
d. 25%

This poll is a fail. It's 50% if the correct answer is 25% but 25% if the correct answer is 50% or 60%...

[SleazyDream]

Originally Posted by Colmike7

This poll is a fail. It's 50% if the correct answer is 25% but 25% if the correct answer is 50% or 60%...

60%????????????? explain

inquiring minds want to know

[Colmike9]

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

60%????????????? explain

inquiring minds want to know

Original Q:
"If you choose to answer this question at random, what is the chance you will correct?

a. 25%
b. 60%
c. 50%
d. 25%"

Let's say the correct answer is 25%. Then you have a 50% chance of picking the correct answer at random.

If the correct answer is 50% or 60%, then the chances of picking the correct answer is 25%.

It all depends on what the correct answer is out of those choices.

[SleazyDream]

Originally Posted by Colmike7

Original Q:
"If you choose to answer this question at random, what is the chance you will correct?

a. 25%
b. 60%
c. 50%
d. 25%"

Let's say the correct answer is 25%. Then you have a 50% chance of picking the correct answer at random.

If the correct answer is 50% or 60%, then the chances of picking the correct answer is 25%.

It all depends on what the correct answer is out of those choices.

if the correct answer is 60%???????????????

[Colmike9]

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

if the correct answer is 60%???????????????

If the correct answer is 60%, then you have a 25% (1:4) chance to pick it at random from that list... Am I reading the question wrong?

[SleazyDream]

Originally Posted by Colmike7

If the correct answer is 60%, then you have a 25% (1:4) chance to pick it at random from that list... Am I reading the question wrong?

i'm not asking IF, I'm asking what the correct answer is ;P

[raymor]

The answer is 50%. The question is "what is the chance you will correct?" SleazyDream corrected Barnato and Colmike corrected SleazyDream. Two of four people who took the poll corrected someone, so that's 50%. The chance you'll BE correct is a different question entirely.

[Colmike9]

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

i'm not asking IF, I'm asking what the correct answer is ;P

But.. The correct answer depends on the correct answer..lol

Can someone explain cause Im confused?

[raymor]

Originally Posted by Colmike7

This poll is a fail. It's 50% if the correct answer is 25% but 25% if the correct answer is 50% or 60%...

Assuming each answer is equally likely, that would mean the combined odds are:
50% * 50% + 25% * 50% = 37.5%

Since 37.5% isn't a listed answer, the odds of selecting the correct answer are 0%, given the assumption that those four (three) answers are equally likely.

However, if you define a) and d) as different answers, the odds are 25% and either a or d is correct, but not both.

The odds that we've been geek-trolled? 100%.

[96ukssob]

Some might say "C" as it seems to be the answer most people choose... but most people are stupid.

If you were to pick an answer, IMO would be 25% as you have a 50/50 chance of that being correct then one of the others which is only 25%

[SleazyDream]

Originally Posted by raymor

The odds that we've been geek-trolled? 100%.

[papill0n]

Originally Posted by raymor

Assuming each answer is equally likely, that would mean the combined odds are:
50% * 50% + 25% * 50% = 37.5%

Since 37.5% isn't a listed answer, the odds of selecting the correct answer are 0%, given the assumption that those four (three) answers are equally likely.

However, if you define a) and d) as different answers, the odds are 25% and either a or d is correct, but not both.

The odds that we've been geek-trolled? 100%.

while that answer looks impressive the correct answer is always going to be 50%

you are either right or wrong

[Trend]

My answer(s) would be ?.

0% My reasoning is to consider A?D in turn and to show that each is wrong:

If A were correct, then so would D be, and hence the probability of the correct answer being selected is 50%. Thus A and D are both wrong.

If B were correct, then the probability of the correct answer being selected is 25%. Thus B is wrong. Similarly for C.


The structure of this question mimics the Russell?s paradox.

[DamianJ]

Excellent, another thread where idiots can argue pointlessly about how each other don't understand mathematics.

[JFK]

Originally Posted by raymor

The answer is 50%. The question is "what is the chance you will correct?" SleazyDream corrected Barnato and Colmike corrected SleazyDream. Two of four people who took the poll corrected someone, so that's 50%. The chance you'll BE correct is a different question entirely.

that could be correct , but then I'm not that smart

[u-Bob]

It's an infinite loop?

[smutnut]

It's an enigma within an enigma!

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

If you choose to answer this question at random, what is the chance you will correct?

a. 25%
b. 60%
c. 50%
d. 25%

the red tuba!!!!

[ottopottomouse]

D +

[Vendzilla]

According to the Hitchikers guide to the galaxy, the correct answer is 42, therefore all the answers listed are incorrect

[digitalfantasies]

correct answer: this thread needs more hot pics

[Just Alex]

[Scott McD]

Fatfoo has all the answers...

[Yngwie]

Originally Posted by Colmike7

Original Q:
"If you choose to answer this question at random, what is the chance you will correct?

a. 25%
b. 60%
c. 50%
d. 25%"

Let's say the correct answer is 25%. Then you have a 50% chance of picking the correct answer at random.

If the correct answer is 50% or 60%, then the chances of picking the correct answer is 25%.

It all depends on what the correct answer is out of those choices.

No matter which answer you give to almost any question it's always 50/50.. There's a wrong answer and a right one.. Unless there's more then 1 right answer then the % changes, but this is based on 1 right, 1 wrong. 50/50..

[RyuLion]

Originally Posted by digitalfantasies

correct answer: this thread needs more hot pics

[Spunky]

Numbers make my brain hurt

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by Colmike7

This poll is a fail. It's 50% if the correct answer is 25% but 25% if the correct answer is 50% or 60%...

This.

[SleazyDream]

By moving one of the following digits, make the equation correct.


62 - 63 = 1

[SleazyDream]

What is special about the following sequence of numbers?

8 5 4 9 1 7 6 10 3 2 0

[SleazyDream]

An 18-wheeler is crossing a 4 kilometer bridge that can only support 10,000 kilograms and that's exactly how much the rig weighs. Halfway across the bridge a 30 gram sparrow lands on the cab, but the bridge doesn't collapse. Why not?

[Rochard]

There is a one in four chance you'll get the answer right - which is 25%. But being as two of the answers are 25%, that means there is a 50% chance you'll get it right.

[B.Barnato]

Mental midget.

[Just Alex]

unscramble these letters

bankruptyc

[jimmy-3-way]

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

Question for the dumb people.

FTFY, buddy.

[jimmy-3-way]

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

An 18-wheeler is crossing a 4 kilometer bridge that can only support 10,000 kilograms and that's exactly how much the rig weighs. Halfway across the bridge a 30 gram sparrow lands on the cab, but the bridge doesn't collapse. Why not?

This one IS for smart people, because you have to be pretty clever to understand that the effect of gravity in the middle of a bridge is slightly less than the effect on the ground due to the earth's proximity to the bridge's span at the center.

[kate27]

Originally Posted by jimmy-3-way

This one IS for smart people, because you have to be pretty clever to understand that the effect of gravity in the middle of a bridge is slightly less than the effect on the ground due to the earth's proximity to the bridge's span at the center.

Kilograms is a measure of mass that does not change ever, unlike pounds that are mass under the effect of gravity. So the original wording doesn't make sense! It would have to be newtons.. (nerd alert )

[mineistaken]

edit......

[sixsax]

Replace 60% with 0% for more fun.

[papill0n]

good job sleazy

we're all convinced youre smart now

[raymor]

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

By moving one of the following digits, make the equation correct.


62 - 63 = 1

6 ² - 63 = 1

[CDSmith]

Last time this Q was posted I think it went 7 pages.

Let's see how far this one gets.

[raymor]

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

An 18-wheeler is crossing a 4 kilometer bridge that can only support 10,000 kilograms and that's exactly how much the rig weighs. Halfway across the bridge a 30 gram sparrow lands on the cab, but the bridge doesn't collapse. Why not?

The rig burns 400 grams of fuel traveling the 2km to the center of the bridge.

[CDSmith]

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

An 18-wheeler is crossing a 4 kilometer bridge that can only support 10,000 kilograms and that's exactly how much the rig weighs. Halfway across the bridge a 30 gram sparrow lands on the cab, but the bridge doesn't collapse. Why not?

The sparrow just took a 29 gram dump on a car crossing another bridge not 3 mins earlier, thus it's added weight wasn't enough to cause a collapse.


And chances are pretty good that it was my car.

[2012]

you've got a pretty good chance of being an Idiot

[marcop]

Originally Posted by SleazyDream

What is special about the following sequence of numbers?

8 5 4 9 1 7 6 10 3 2 0

If you spell out the numbers in English, that's how they would line up alphabetically...
Eight FIve FOur Nine One SEven SIx TEn THree TWo Zero.

[redwhiteandblue]

Originally Posted by raymor

6 ² - 63 = 1

Actualy no, it would be 2^6 - 63 = 1.