I disagree there’s any paradox - every choice is completely wrong. Each choice cannot be correct because no percentage reflects the chance of picking that number.
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user86223091@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s 0%, because 0% isn’t on the list and therefore you have no chance of picking it. It’s the only answer consistent with itself. All other chances cause a kind of paradox-loop.
rational_lib@lemmy.world 1 month ago
user86223091@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Completely agree! In this case there is no real paradox, 0% is a perfectly consistent answer.
I think if you replace 60% with 0%, you’d get a proper paradox, because now there is a non-zero chance of picking 0% and it’s no longer consistent with itself. It’s similar to the “This statement is false” paradox, where by assuming something is true, it makes it false and vice versa.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Correct - even if you include the (necessary) option of making up your own answer. If you pick a percentage at random, you have a 0% chance of picking 0%.
olafurp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Correct, including 0% as a part of the answers would make 0% a wrong answer.