{"id":14002,"date":"2011-10-30T04:06:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T09:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14002"},"modified":"2011-10-30T08:26:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T13:26:40","slug":"statistics-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=14002","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a fun little question I found, via Flowing Data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

random_answer.jpg<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

Now, this is very clever, although I really wish the answer for C) was 0% instead of 60%. See, if that was the case then it would make a nice circular puzzle:<\/p>\n

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  1. The chance of randomly choosing the correct answer out of four is 25%.\n<\/li>\n
  2. Clearly the correct answer is 25%.\n<\/li>\n
  3. But, 25% appears twice in this list meaning the odds to randomly choose the correct answer of 25% is actually… 50%?\n<\/li>\n
  4. Okay, so 50% is the answer. But I only have a 25% chance of selecting that one.\n<\/li>\n
  5. I see. So this is actually a paradox, and the odds of selecting the correct answer is really 0%.\n<\/li>\n
  6. But… 0% is one of the options in the list. Which means I have a 25% chance of choosing it!\n<\/li>\n
  7. GOTO 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m not sure what the 60% is. Maybe it’s just a random wrong answer, but I can’t escape the notion that maybe 60% has some meaning that’s going over my head. Is there some application of statistics where (through averaging or some such shenanigans) you could end up with an answer of 60%?<\/p>\n

    In any case, I got a laugh out of it. <\/p>\n

    EDIT: Comments were inexplicably disabled for this post. This has been remedied. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here is a fun little question I found, via Flowing Data. Now, this is very clever, although I really wish the answer for C) was 0% instead of 60%. See, if that was the case then it would make a nice circular puzzle: The chance of randomly choosing the correct answer out of four is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}