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n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days ago

Math is hard

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Math is hard

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n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days ago
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    Godel showed that self-referential problems like this are impossible to resolve. He proved that the existence of these types of problems mean that math can never completely describe reality as outlined in his incompleteness theorems -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel’s_incompleteness_theorems

    This is one of the drivers of post-modernist thinking. Douglas Hofstadter talks a lot about this and the nature of consciousness in his famous book Gödel, Escher, Bach -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%2C_Escher%2C_Bach

  • Arcden@lemmy.zip
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    Help, my mind is caught in a paradoxical loop!

    • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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      have you tried turning it off and on again?

      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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        Its askimg for a subscription now…

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    Ah fuck, there goes my right to vote in Jim Crow South.

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    If you were to pick at random it would be 25% given there are 4 options being. However, that isn’t the same as the question about the question, which you see 25% percent twice meaning you could Be randomly right twice actually, so the answer to this question about a question is b.) 50%.

    • whatsisface@sh.itjust.works
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      No, because if you choose randomly there’s only a 25% chance of choosing B.

      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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        But if your answer is 25% there is a 50% chance of randomly getiing it right.

        G.E.B.

  • Archimedes@sh.itjust.works
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    There’s a 50% chance of choosing 25%, but 25% might not be the correct answer. So I’m going 0% because it fits all of my previous life choices.

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    Going with D. It’d be 25% for a normal question, but since it’s the second 25% this provides some evidence that I read all the answers.

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      2 out of 4 answers are the same, and if we say that 25% is correct then you actually have a much higher chance of selecting the correct one. I’m sure there’s some statistics crap to say it’s not 50%, but if half your random choices are correct then that seems right to me. So now 50% is correct, but it’s only 1 in 4 and the odds go back to 25%. So now it’s 0%, except that that’s ALSO on there so now the correct answer is 25% again. The problem is that ever single time 25% becomes the correct answer you now have a 50% chance to get it right if chosen randomly and it’s wrong all over again.

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    a == d

    a + d = b

    c = burn it down

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    Oh fuck.

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    Gentlemen, there’s a solution here you’re not seeing

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    deleted by creator

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    C because all the answers are wrong.

    • davidgro@lemmy.world
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      But that would make C a correct answer. Which would make A and D correct answers…

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    33.3333333333333333333333333333333…

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    Classical paradox question. There is no correct answer.

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    32 questions like this one.

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    The answer is 50% without it being b). There is also test optimization strategy for answering F’d up questions. If 2 options are the same, they can not be intended answer of test maker.

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      depending on the rules

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