Which is correct?

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[–]Questionable 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

I liked this.

[–]Musky[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

It's pretty cool, a self referential paradox that has no right answer.

[–]Questionable 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

If the paradox causes your chances to guess correctly to become 0% you can choose B. As you are not guessing, but choosing the correct answer.

[–]Musky[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

This is someone else's answer I c&ped, thought they explained it well:

If the correct answer is 25%, then because there are two 25% options, the chance should be 2/4 or 50%.

But since only 1 out of the 4 options is 50%, the chance of choosing 50% randomly should be 1/4 or 25%.

And you get stuck in an infinite loop.

If it was 0%, then the chance of selecting the 0% option randomly is 1/4 or 25%.

And we're back to the same problem

[–]NastyWetSmear 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You could also talk about phrasing:

"This Question" doesn't reference those answers. We know the show hosts 4 answers to each question, so the answer could be argued to be A or D - 25%, despite the answers given here not reflecting that.

Or if you take "This Question" to infer "With these specific answers", you could argue it's C - 50%, because 50% of the answers are the correct answer when talking about any given question on the show.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Given that they're all wrong, it's curious that the two answers that's it's oscillating between are the ones that aren't the correct 0%.

[–]Questionable 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Here is how I approached it; Go over each possible answer, and mark them yes or no. Once you are done, you should have answer no to every single choice, leaving you with 0% And then you simply choose the correct answer. Your choice will not be a guess. As you can never guess the correct answer.