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Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017)

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Re: Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017)

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The answer to that question is obviously 0% Now, what would be the answer to the same question with the answer options: A) 20% B) 40% C) 60% D) 20% E) 0%

Your answer above is incorrect in a very funny way. "At random" implies an uninformed prior, but the question presupposes there's a correct answer, as 0% is missing. 0% and 100% are indefensible for any uninformed prior. There are two answers giving the correct probability for uniform prior. One of the 25% is a wrong answer despite being indistinguishable. Such a thing can happen because of a typo or in any myriad of…

At random has to imply uniform random for the question to make any sense, otherwise you can simply bias your answer choices so the answer is always correct.

Given uniform random none of the answers is correct:

25%) There's a 50% chance of choosing this answer

50%) There's a 25% change of choosing this answer

60%) There's a 25% chance of choosing this answer

If you're allowed to pick your own random distribution then any answer is equally valid. Say we pick one of the 25% answers 25% of the time, and the other ones uniformly:

25%) There's a 25% chance of picking this, as defined by our random distribution.

50%) 37.5% chance

60%) 37.5% chance

But if we instead pick our distribution so we pick the 60% answer 60% of the time and the others uniformly we've suddenly got this answer:

25%) ±27% chance

50%) ±13% chance

60%) 60% chance

So depending on if you interpret random as "uniform random" or as "whichever random distribution you like" either none of the answers are right or you can pick any answer to be right.

Re: Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017)

#32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your answer above is incorrect in a very funny way. "At random" implies an uninformed prior, but the question presupposes there's a correct answer, as 0% is missing. 0% and 100% are indefensible for any uninformed prior. There are two answers giving the correct probability for uniform prior. One of the 25% is a wrong answer despite being indistinguishable. Such a thing can happen because of a typo or in any myriad of…

>0% and 100% are indefensible for any uninformed prior. If none of the answers are correct, the chance of picking the correct answer is 0%.

Again, not for a question that has a defensible answer present when you're picking at random. (Uninformed prior.)

If there is no defensible answer present, it's still not 0%, it's a paradox.

The answer is dependent on base axioms accepted. (Axiom of choice and axiom of regularity are a few.) The answer set is Dedekind-finite and countable, whereupon probability is 1/logically consistent answers given the axioms chosen.

Re: Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017)

#33

Similar one I enjoyed in the Naive Bayes article from yesterday https://blog.floydhub.com/naive-bayes-for-machine-learning/ Multiple Choice: If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct? A) 25% B) 50% C) 60% D) 25%

The right answer is the question:

"Is the teacher a Cretan?" :-P

Re: Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017)

#34
post #26

LinkedIn's skill tests are hilariously poor. They ask unanswerable questions, and mistype the answers. The more familiar you are with the subject matter, the more uncertain you become.

I noticed those randomly one day and did a few of them. I failed the one for the primary programming language I have worked in for the past decade and passed ones for two different languages I have hardly used and AWS, which I barely know anything about outside of EC2 and R53. I felt like there was a big difference in the quality of the questions and answers for each quiz. For the AWS one, for example, the phrasing u…

Same with UpWork. Tests on these sites are largely garbage.

Re: Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017)

#37

Similar one I enjoyed in the Naive Bayes article from yesterday https://blog.floydhub.com/naive-bayes-for-machine-learning/ Multiple Choice: If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct? A) 25% B) 50% C) 60% D) 25%

Even more frustrating would be:

  Multiple Choice: If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct?  
  A) 20%
  B) 40%
  C) 60%
  D) 20%
  E) None of the above

Re: Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017)

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>0% and 100% are indefensible for any uninformed prior. If none of the answers are correct, the chance of picking the correct answer is 0%.

Again, not for a question that has a defensible answer present when you're picking at random. (Uninformed prior.) If there is no defensible answer present, it's still not 0%, it's a paradox. The answer is dependent on base axioms accepted. (Axiom of choice and axiom of regularity are a few.) The answer set is Dedekind-finite and countable, whereupon probability is 1/logically consistent answers given the axioms chose…

Wake up, check HN, see a lively argument about whether something that can't happen has a 0% probability of happening or not.

Maybe I'll go for a walk.

Re: Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (2017)

#40
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what is the question? 5 and 6 are the only possible. But if 5 is true then 6 is false None of the above can be true only with "more than one of the above (but different than all, none or one)", but then we would not be talking about the correct answer. It is assumed than only an answer can be correct. I suppose than 6 then. Updated: you are right, 6 can't be true, is the 5

I got as far as your first sentence - "what is the question".

I can't work out what the question is asking, so I don't know how to work out what answers are correct/incorrect.

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