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12551249 No.12551249 [Reply] [Original]

I've seen this image multiple times. Since /sci/ is the only board with the iq to solve it. Help me out bros. What is the actual answer to this question? It's not bait I swear I've seen this image too many times posted on /adv/ and it's annoying me. What is the answer here.

>> No.12551261

if you choose an answer to this question at random, what's the chance you're retarded?
a: 100%
b: 100%
c: 100%
d: 100%

>> No.12551265

>>12551249
The answer in the game is obviously C 50%

>> No.12551391

>>12551249
33,33%

>> No.12551587

>>12551249
depends on how many faggets it took to make this answer

>> No.12551613

There is literally no right answers. Is it a shop?

>> No.12551706

>>12551249
c

It would be 1 in 4 since there are 4 questions but two are the same therefore it becomes 1 in 3. It is literally impossible for it to be 0 so you have 1 in 2, 50%

>> No.12551711

>>12551706
it is kind of a trick question because it is jumping between choosing one of the answers provided in the box and one of the values they provide. They provide 3 values in 4 boxes so it isnt logically consistent but I guess that was the point

>> No.12551724

>>12551711
conversely it could be 0% because you dont even know what the question is therefore how could you get the right answer? They didn't ask a question. I dont think the answer is zero however because no matter how astronomical the odds you could still guess it. It is bascially the equivalent of asking what number or word am I thinking of right now with no upper limit

>> No.12551738

>>12551249
If you get this question wrong then you get it correct. What are the chances of you getting it correct?
A 100%
B 50%
C 25%
D 0%

>> No.12551783

>>12551249
1/3, because the fourth answer is the same as one of the first three?

>> No.12551844
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12551844

>>12551249

A & D - 25%
It can not be this because if 25% is the right answer, then the probability to chose the right answer randomly would be 50% which again mean A or D can't be the right answer.


B - 0%
If B is the right alternative then the probability of choosing alternative B is 25% which means that alternative B can't be the right one because it says the chance is 0%


C - 50%
It can't be C either because the chance of choosing C randomly is 25%.


Someone has shopped the pic or they fucked up making the question.

I think that they probably meant to have two alternatives that was 50% or one alternative that was 25%. I guess alternative D has been photoshoped from 75% to 25% to bait me into wasting my time again

>> No.12551870

>>12551249
A. You have 25% chance to choose A.

>what about D
D isn't the correct answer. A is.

>> No.12551898

>>12551738
the correct answer would be 75 but since it isnt there then guessing the wrong answer is 100 percent

>> No.12551983

>>12551249
It's just an alternative form of the liar paradox.

>> No.12551993

>>12551613
But if there were no right answers, B would be the right answer.

>> No.12552042

>>12551249
WWTBAM only has one correct answer. Regardless of the apparent similarity between A and D, both representing 25%, only one of them is actually correct. So 25% is the correct answer, but you don't know whether it is A or D. And no, smartasses, this doesn't make 50% the correct answer - you're picking randomly from the four options, not picking randomly after making deductions to limit your options.

>> No.12552054

>>12551993
No, because the chance of randomly choosing alternative B is 25% which means it can't be alternative B (0%)

>> No.12552286

>>12551724
if you'd ever pick 0% how could you possibly be right ever?
>>12551706
Even if 0 is an impossible answer you still have a choice at random to choose it. So you have three possibilities with different weights (25% has a weight of 2).
>>12551983
But the liars paradox has a solution has it not? Or atleast I've never seen it but I assume there is some way to create an answer to it.
>>12552042
oof actually not that of a bad attempt. So there's a A 25% and a C 25% which both are fundamentally different (red balls and green balls).
>>12551613
It has to be I guess because if they'd ask that for the million dollar question I'd just walk with the 500k. Or choose the 50:50 so the question would become nonsense (which would probably keep a and c up so you'd be fucked anyways)

>> No.12552300

>>12552286
it didnt ask you about choosing it, it said your choice being correct.

>> No.12553248

>>12552286
>But the liars paradox has a solution has it not? Or atleast I've never seen it but I assume there is some way to create an answer to it.
You can't say whether "This statement is false" is true or false. If there's a solution it's just that the statement has no truth value, it's neither true or false. It's the same with this question, in particular with the option B. A and D are easy to dismiss, since they are the same answer and the chance to get either one of them is 50% in total, which contradicts with the answer being 25%. Same for C, except the other way around with the percentages. But when it comes to B - if it were the correct answer, then there would be a 25% chance to get it, in which case it would be a false answer. But then the chance of getting the right answer would be 0%, which would make it the right answer. Which would mean that the chance of getting the right answer is 25%, so B would be wrong etc. etc. ad infinitum.

>> No.12553261

>>12551249
B because I'm not choosing randomly and if I were none of the answers would be the correct one.

>> No.12553931

>>12553248
so you're saying this statement is illogical and cannot have a truth value. Or rather its truth value loops and changes depending on the answer so that the actual answer depends on the choice answer made. Then if you were to pick the choice at random, wouldn't that change the situation again?
If you had to choose an answer at random to the liars paradox variant 'this statement is false at random' wouldn't you at random be able to be correct. Isn't the OP image built on the same foundation?

>> No.12553939

>>12553931
shut the fuck up

>> No.12554778

>>12551249
I select 50/50 hint.

>> No.12554995
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12554995

>>12551613
>Everything in the picture is somewhat blurry except for the answers and the question text
>Is it a shop

>> No.12555006

>>12554995
oh boy, how could I be so blind?

>> No.12555019

Hope that you didn't use the "hack" that allows you to remove two of the options.

>> No.12556371

>>12554778
You're left with A and D.

>> No.12556626

>>12551249
>this question
which question?

>> No.12557569

>>12551249
Can you repeat the question?

>> No.12557614

>>12556626
Itself
It simplifies to
>what is the answer to this question

Which is a tough one, honestly, philisophically

>> No.12557728
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12557728

>>12556371
That settles it, I phone the friend.

>> No.12557848

>>12551249
assuming A is correct results in a paradox because D is the same answer (=50%)
assuming B is correct results in an obvious paradox
assuming C is correct implies that A and D are correct

it's just a clever mathematical oxymoron. it's like a more complex and sneaky cousin of asking for the solution to the equation x = x+1

>> No.12558597

>>12557848
x=∞

>> No.12558600

>>12558597
nice try brainlet

>> No.12558603

>>12557569
>Can you repeat the question?
*that

>> No.12558606

>>12558597
wouldn't it be 0=1?

>> No.12559065
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12559065

>>12557728
>>12557728
kek

>> No.12559122

>>12559065
is that real?