In social choice, a no-show paradox is a surprising behavior in some voting rules, where a candidate loses an election as a result of having too many...
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self-contradictions, are called Condorcet methods. Condorcet's paradox is a special case of Arrow's paradox, which shows that any kind of social decision-making process...
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example is Russell's paradox, which questions whether a "list of all lists that do not contain themselves" would include itself and showed that attempts to...
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Quota method (section Alabama paradox)
theorists as a result of apportionment paradoxes. In particular, the largest remainder methods exhibit the no-show paradox, i.e. voting for a party can cause...
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Vote-ratio monotonicity (redirect from Population paradox)
encounter population paradoxes. A particularly severe variant, where voting for a party causes it to lose seats, is called a no-show paradox. The largest remainders...
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The barber paradox is a puzzle derived from Russell's paradox. It was used by Bertrand Russell as an illustration of the paradox, though he attributes...
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This list includes well known paradoxes, grouped thematically. The grouping is approximate, as paradoxes may fit into more than one category. This list...
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A temporal paradox, time paradox, or time travel paradox, is a paradox, an apparent contradiction, or logical contradiction associated with the idea of...
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Zeno's paradoxes are a series of philosophical arguments presented by the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BC), primarily known through...
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amalgamation paradox, or the reversal paradox. Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg argues that Simpson's paradox is misnamed as "there's no contradiction involved, just...
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Instant-runoff voting (section Later-no-harm criterion)
other mathematical pathologies, which include non-monotonicity and the no-show paradox. Like some other commonly-used systems, IRV also exhibits a kind of...
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cannot safely rank any candidates at all; such a situation is called a no-show paradox. A 2021 study found roughly 32% of voters under instant-runoff cast...
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related to the liar paradox as a problem, and it purports to show that a sentence can be paradoxical even if it is not self-referring and does not use demonstratives...
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The heat death paradox, also known as thermodynamic paradox, Clausius' paradox, and Kelvin's paradox, is a reductio ad absurdum argument that uses thermodynamics...
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Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel (colloquial: Infinite Hotel Paradox or Hilbert's Hotel) is a thought experiment which illustrates a counterintuitive...
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Negative responsiveness (redirect from More-is-less paradox)
choice, the negative responsiveness, perversity, or additional support paradox is a pathological behavior of some voting rules, where a candidate loses...
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Paradox Live is a Japanese media mix project created by Avex Pictures and GCREST. The project features 29 voice actors and is centered on rap battles...
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A Killer Paradox (Korean: 살인자ㅇ난감) is a 2024 South Korean crime thriller dark comedy television series written by Kim Da-min, directed by Lee Chang-hee...
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Russell's paradox shows that every set theory that contains an unrestricted comprehension principle leads to contradictions. The paradox had already...
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Monty Hall problem (redirect from Monty Hall paradox)
Bertrand's box paradox. Steve Selvin wrote a letter to the American Statistician in 1975, describing a problem based on the game show Let's Make a Deal...
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The St. Petersburg paradox or St. Petersburg lottery is a paradox involving the game of flipping a coin where the expected payoff of the lottery game is...
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The unexpected hanging paradox or surprise test paradox is a paradox about a person's expectations about the timing of a future event which they are told...
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The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set-theoretic geometry, which states the following: Given a solid ball in three-dimensional space, there exists...
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The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its...
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paradox is a paradox in which an arbitrary claim F is proved from the mere existence of a sentence C that says of itself "If C, then F". The paradox requires...
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Condorcet winner criterion (redirect from Frustrated majority paradox)
Xia, L. (2023, May). Computational Complexity of Verifying the Group No-show Paradox. In Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous...
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for their pathological behavior, including an absurd result called a no-show paradox, where a proposal may pass because too many members oppose it. This...
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The Daily Show) is an American late-night talk and satirical news television program. It airs each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central in the United...
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Palin, and more than half giving Peltola no support at all. The election was also notable as a no-show paradox, where a candidate is eliminated as a result...
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The black hole information paradox is a paradox that appears when the predictions of quantum mechanics and general relativity are combined. The theory...
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