Is Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Flawed Like Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem?

[Hill]

What is wrong (if anything) with this picture?

 

[PeroK]

Is that real?

 

[Baluncore]

1'st analysis.
You select a, b, c or d. There is a 25% chance you will guess the right letter.
The available % answers have nothing to do with it.

 

[phinds]

Is that real?

Doesn't matter. It's funny

 

[PeroK]

1'st analysis.
You select a, b, c or d. There is a 25% chance you will guess the right letter.
The available % answers have nothing to do with it.

Are you going for answer A or D?

 

[Hill]

The available % answers have nothing to do with it.

This is what I don't know. Do we choose a letter or an answer?

 

[phinds]

The available % answers have nothing to do with it.

Which is why it's funny.

By the way, did you notice 25% is listed twice? Seems to me that makes it extra funny because that creates a paradox.

 

[Baluncore]

The paradox comes in the 2'nd analysis.
You enter an oscillating solution that could be A, D or C.
Since A or D could be correct, that sometimes makes the correct answer C.
So the answer must then be 25%. A or D.

 

[DrGreg]

This is a question that contains within it a logical contradiction, so not only are A, B, C and D all impossible, but "none of the above" is also impossible (because that would imply that B was correct, a contradiction).

I suppose it's a bit like asking if "This statement is false" is true or false.

 

[Baluncore]

“The only interesting answers are those which destroy the question”. —Susan Sontag

 

[Vanadium 50]

As usual. the key is to read the problem carefully. If I were to guess at random, my probability would be zero. I'm just unlucky.

 

[pinball1970]

Is that real?

Does nobody like 50%? Two chances of 25%? I am assuming this is a bit of a trick question.

 

[Hornbein]

It reminds of Godel Incompleteness.