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[-] monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 13 points 1 month ago

I honestly don't understand the joke with the 60%. I understand the progression until then.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 22 points 1 month ago

There's no joke; the 4th choice (in addition to 25%, 25%, 50%) is arbitrary; it could be 0%, 100%, or anything other than 25% or 50%. The only purpose it serves is to be a 4th option (thus making the probability of choosing any individual answer 25% when choosing randomly).

The question would work just as well if it had 3 options:

1/3, 1/3, 2/3.

[-] 56_@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

I think having 0% as the 4th choice would have actually made it more interesting.

[-] Dioxid3@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago
[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Logical progression. You see four answers and think 25%. You see two 25%s and think 50%, but then you don’t know how to square that because 50% is there too!

Delightful, had to come to the comments after a minute - certified brain* breaker!

*peabrain at least

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 points 1 month ago

It's a little easier to figure out if there is one answer that is clearly and unequivocally wrong.

25/25/50/75 or something just doesn't have as neat a mapping of numbers into conceptual categories, for some reason, to me

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