The question as it is in the OP is the best version if it — Jeremiah
Multiple Choice: If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct? — Jeremiah
Saying they each have a 33% chance is suggesting they all have the same probability of being chosen by the chance event, which is not true; 25 has double the chance of being selected than the other values. — Jeremiah
This is what's at stake.I'd argue the frequency of the answer's appearance in the multiple choice list should not affect the chance of the answer being correct. — Fool
An answer is correct if and only if its value matches the chance that an answer with that value will be selected. — Michael
A has a value with a probability of 25 % to be chosen, so it's correct. B and C both have both have a value that has a chance of 50 % to be chosen, so they're correct, too. But that would render the chance to be correct overall at 75 % and according to the problem's formulation, none of them would be correct. But if none of them is correct, then the way we arrived at the correctness of the individual values isn't valid, as it doesn't address the problem. — Dawnstorm
I think you just can't admit that you were wrong. — Jeremiah
That is not philosophy, not by a long shot and if that is the standard that passes on these forums, then I have to question if I belong here at all. — Jeremiah
Because my arumgent is sound, besides I hate it when everyone sits around agreeing with each other, it is incredibly unproductive. — Jeremiah
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