Gollum@feddit.org to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 month agoDo you know the answer?feddit.orgimagemessage-square150fedilinkarrow-up1649arrow-down117
arrow-up1632arrow-down1imageDo you know the answer?feddit.orgGollum@feddit.org to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square150fedilink
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoBut if you did randomly choose the 0% option, you’d be correct. So if one of the possible answers was 0% the correct answer would be 25%.
minus-squareSculptus Poe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·1 month agoBut it wouldn’t be correct, so 0% would remain the answer.
minus-squareTFed 🍉🌻@infosec.exchangelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month ago@SculptusPoe @FaceDeer *Schrödinger’s cat enters the box*
minus-squareEch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThe point is that it can’t be the answer if it’s an option.
minus-squareSculptus Poe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoBut the teacher can’t mark it wrong, making it right.
minus-squareEch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYes, they can. That’s the problem with it being an option.
minus-squareSculptus Poe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoIf they mark it wrong, and all the others, if chosen, are wrong, then your answer was right and they would have to fix their mistake. That wave collapses to there being 0% chance of being right.
But if you did randomly choose the 0% option, you’d be correct. So if one of the possible answers was 0% the correct answer would be 25%.
But it wouldn’t be correct, so 0% would remain the answer.
@SculptusPoe @FaceDeer *Schrödinger’s cat enters the box*
The point is that it can’t be the answer if it’s an option.
But the teacher can’t mark it wrong, making it right.
Yes, they can. That’s the problem with it being an option.
If they mark it wrong, and all the others, if chosen, are wrong, then your answer was right and they would have to fix their mistake. That wave collapses to there being 0% chance of being right.
Nope.