155 points

i thought “easy, 25%”, then i saw the other 25% and then cried.

love me a good paradox.

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67 points

Then I was like 50%, because there are 2 25% answers.

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78 points

And then I was like 25% because there’s now 1 50% answer.

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46 points

That settles it. Has to be 60%.

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15 points

But then that makes the right answer 3 out of 4 possible options, so the correct answer is 75%. Or not. I’m tired.

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2 points

It’s a system that’s complete but not consistent

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Easy. 50%. You’re either right or you’re not.

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36 points

Statistics - the last refuge of cowards.

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17 points

The “get out of jail free card” of statistics.

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50 points

Mathematics breaks sometimes when a sentence refers to itself (because it can create contradicting paradoxes). That’s why such sentences are not allowed in formal mathematics.

This example isn’t really a contradicting paradox yet though, none of the answers are correct hence the question is unanswerable (a logical possibility for an arbitrary question). Other commenters correctly pointed out that this setup would be more interesting if 0% would be one of the given possibilities, because then the question is no longer logically unanswerable hence it would be a contradicting paradox (assuming the question is unanswerable implies a possible answer and assuming that a specific one of the answers is correct implies that it’s not correct)

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17 points

When answering multiple choice and none of the answers are perfect, choose the least wrong answer.

So in this case the answer is 60% because they’re all wrong but that one hurts my brain the least.

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7 points

Always go with C) if you have to guess

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1 point

At least pick A or B to include binary answers.

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46 points

This would have been even more troll with a 0% answer, because that would add another layer of paradox.

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4 points

Yeah erase the 6 and this meme is twice as good

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33 points

0%

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4 points

Or 100%, depending on whether the test maker knows they’re trolling.

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