A 50% chance of selecting 25%, but you just said that 25% isn't the answer, implying that the odds of selecting that don't matter.

Do you mean that there's a 75% chance of choosing 75%? What random selection process would produce that answer with that probability, besides one custom-designed to select that answer with that probability (in which case you could just as easily say 96% or anything else)?

You're assuming they're going with their flawed built-in random-letter selection "algorithm" instead of using a computer or a d4. The context (the self-reference and the presentation as a math problem rather than a psychology one) implies the latter.

But half those letters give what you're saying is the correct answer, so if you choose from among the letters at random, there's a 50% chance of getting that particular answer.

The implication seems to be that you're randomly selecting a letter from A to D and giving the answer associated with that letter.

There aren't four possible solutions. There are three possible solutions given in four options. If you randomly choose between A, B, C, and D, the odds of your selecting one that says "25%" is 50%.

"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

The sentence is true because it is grammatically correct.

It wasn't an anime.

One viewer has noticed a buttload of Ami/Makoto subtext in the first two seasons. Then it stops when the writers got a canon lesbian couple to work with.

I've read that Harrison Bergeron was actually intended to be ludicrous, as a parody of Objectivist fears (hence the blatant impossibility of Harrison's abilities). Don't know whether that can be proven, but it seems he did have socialist beliefs.

I actually thought of "Smith and Jones," mainly because of the word "represent" in the headline. But "Blink" works too.

This movie still baffles the armchair economist in me. The monetary base shrinks in direct proportion to the population at a linear rate, right? Minus one year being added for everyone who hits their 25th birthday, assuming I understand it right. So how do even many of the poor people manage to earn at least 24 hours…

So, uh... are there any good mainstream American superhero comics that are for kids?

OK, DC? You want a fantastical action comic to sell? Make one that people enjoy reading. Not just one age+gender demographic, people. Make it fun to read and look at, make the story engaging and interesting, make the characters likable beyond just their looks.

Not everything is about "deserving." The important thing is what provides the best outcome (yeah, I'm usually a consequentialist), and I think it's pretty silly for the primary axiom on that to be "It is good for Those People to suffer, even if it means great taxpayer expense, no real contribution to society on their…

"Closing Time" takes place a full 200 years after last week's "The God Complex," in terms of the Doctor's own timeline.

Because you know that any time somebody remakes or adapts something old, the first thing they say is, "I'm going to do a dark gritty reimagining, to put my own stamp on it."

I think I've read that one of the main theories of autism is that that deficiency in sensory processing is the root of it, with everything else stemming directly or indirectly from it. Processing face data and other nonverbal communication starts out more difficult and follows a rich-get-richer-poor-have-children…

I am fully aware that in society at large, I enjoy certain privileges that atheists do not. Eleven years ago, the Democratic nominee for POTUS had a practicing Jew for a running mate. Looking at a 2007 Gallup poll, Americans apparently put atheists at the bottom of the "most willing to vote for in a presidential…