Know any good paradoxes?
My favorites are the unexpected hanging:
and the Monte Hall one:
You are in a game show. There are three doors. Behind 2 are goats, and behind one is a shiny car. If you pick the one with a car.
after you pick a door, the host opens one of the others, revealing a goat. You are then given the option to change doors. Is it in your best interest to do so? At this point, most people would say it doesn't matter, you now have a 50/50 chance with either door. They are wrong. It is really in your best interest to switch, in which case you will have a 50% chance of winning, where as if you keep the same choice you only have a 33% chance.
Im not going to explain the mathematics behind the second one, as it is one of the most popular paradoxes, and there's a good chance that everyone here already knows why your chances would improve if you switched. If you dont, hink about it, it's really quite interesting.