#118

Worst quiz ever.

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#119

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#120

:smiley: Oh FUCK YOU
You make it then
I’m tired

#121

GF has just arrived.

‘Yeah just give me half an hour,’

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#123

it’s a third though isn’t it

#124

I guess it depends if you consider A & D as separate answers as that would weight it differently

#125

it is 25%

#126

fair enough but are you sure?

#127

very sure!

#128

is this based on the question and answer themselves or your prior knowledge of how the game show works?

#129

It’s unanswerable because your answer changes the probability.

If you think you have a one in four chance at random, it’s 25% - except there are two 25%s, so the chances are 50%.

But you only have a 25% chance of picking the 50%, so it’s back to 25%.

If it’s impossible, the chances are 0%, right? Nope, because you have a 25% chance of picking 0%…

#130

It is based on my knowledge of the popular television show ‘who wants to be a millionaire’ and my limited experience in coding some multiple choice online games.

millionaire only ever has one answer per question that is correct, that’s the format of the show, that doesn’t change ever, there doesn’t exist an option of two possible answers. So the ‘right answer’ has been assigned to a, b, c or d. It doesn’t really matter if the ‘right answer’ is actually factually true, it only matters that it has been given the ‘right answer’ condition, so even though there are two 25% options in the above example - only one of them can be the ‘right answer’ because of how the game is set up.

So in this scenario you could choose one of the 25% answers and still get the question ‘wrong’, which would be pretty annoying if you lost 30k or something, but that’s really something you’d have to take up with the production company behind ‘who wants to be a millionaire’

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#131

hmmm so we are saying that probability doesn’t actually mean anything outside of a human definition? Could be true

#132

yeah that’s true but I saw the quiz show itself there as just a method of presenting the question

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#133

maybe there is no such thing as a something that might happen

#134
  • Probability stuff freaks my nut :nerd_face:
  • Maths nerd :sunglasses:

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#135

I think it still kindof holds up as if you take this outside of millionaire then someone has to assigned a correct answer, and really ‘correct’ is a slightly movable concept. Like, you choose your answer and then some authority has to tell you if you are right or not, if it’s just you then fuck it, choose what you want and just say it’s correct.

So I’m going with 25% and will leave the burden of working out if that’s right or not to whoever has set the question.

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#136

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#137

Same mate, same!

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#138

Actually both. Probability freaks my nut but maths I’m claiming nerd cred.

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