The Potato Paradox
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- You have 100 pounds of potatoes and you know that they’re made up of 99% water. You leave them out overnight and they dry out a bit, so they’re only 98% water. How much do they weigh now? 99lbs? 98lbs? They’ve only lost 1%...
Nope. 50 pounds -- they’ve lost half their weight! But how? Bust out your burlap potato sack, because Kevin is about to do the dirty work of uncovering the answer to a bizarre veridical paradox that just doesn’t seem to add up. Gravy not included.
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Go tell someone that salad is 5% away from being soup.
I wanted to be salad when I was a kid :)
Told my mom. She replied with a simple "hm."
Mission Accepted
Vsauce2 no
yes
Kevin: what's more water than watermelon?
Me: water.
Heheh🤣
Thats what i said in my head 😂
It's like you read my mind!
Salad
Insert why are you booing me meme
Famous catchphrases:
Michael: Or is it?
Kevin: WRONG
How bout Jake
What about jake?
Jake : Who is jake
He lly This is a theory...😂
You forgot jake
"You must hug your potatoes so that they know that you care." -- Kevin, 2018
i heard that exactly when i read the comment😐
True
Search on CZcams how potatoes saved the world
2017*
@Rafal رفل from mobile It shows 3 years ago
Easier way to explain this. 100lbs and 1% is solid matter. So that's 1lb solid matter. They dry out and now it's 2% solid matter. But still only 1lb. And if 1lb is 2% of the total weight, then the total weight must be 50lb. You don't even have to do the water % math this way to get the same result.
You see I was looking for a Siple answer and this explains it properly. I totally understand this concept bet the dude in the video doesn't know how to describe what he is say. If you can't described something in a simple manner you do not understand it well. Thanks for the comment helped a lot.
Its because 2% is a wrong assumption. Guess thats why he circled wrong repeatedly. In which case whats the point of this video, to prevent ppl from making mistakes? People will click-off the video. Then next video he makes is a video on paradox also, because, what, you think the audience didn't get the paradox? Maybe its on you kevin maybe its on you.
@@misheck3861 yeh
I am glad the dude is trying to help people understand math in a way, but this is not how you explain the analytics of solving this problem. Might as well watch TedEd instead of these videos. The value of this 10 minute long video is equal or if not then less than the value of your comment.
Exactly. I got 50lbs, and people who’ve taken an Algebra course should get this as well. Not remotely close to a paradox.
Jesus can walk on water,
I can walk on Lettuce,
Lettuce is 95% water,
I am 95% Jesus
Jesus can walk on water
I can walk on ice
Ice is 100% water
I am Jesus
XCaSurge Gaming Are you serious?!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
You are affirming the consequent
And I will do that too
Apples are 100% red
But apples aren't roses
This fallacy makes me blue
Jesus turned water into wine
You can turn water into water
wine is 85% water
You are 85% Jesus
Buddha ate bread
You eat bread
bread is 100% bread
You are 100% Buddha
Mohammed Ali breathed air
air is 100% electrons, protons and neutrons
You can post fallacious arguments in CZcams comments using your keyboard
Your keyboard is 100% atoms, neutrons and electrons
You are Mohammed Ali
This is not a sentence
The sentence I wrote above is false
This is not a paradox
I like potatoes
You like potatoes
You are not a sentence
You are false
You are a potato
Wurtt Mapper beautiful
Newborns are 15% away from being soup.
Supscribe 4 if you are creative enough that can be 100% easy
🙁🤢🤮
@@humanatee6639 it's the internet get over it
r/cursedcomments
0% after a good blendin'
Someone: right?
Vsauce: *_WRONG_*
Erik *proceeds to circle wrong with a sharpie*
This is the requirement to become a Vsauce
Waiter: soup or salad?
Kevin: *yes*
Thank you for blessing me with this comment
*W R O N G*
Super salad
Boolean Logic strikes again
I have a feeling someone is going to get r/woooshed here
Next time I get asked if I want "soup or salad" I might have an existential crisis...
What is a SuperSalad???
But how much percentage of water is needed for soup? In fact, I think some soup would have a lower percentage of water than salad. Hmmm. Also, would salad even become soup or would it be a beverage, like a juice?
@wrenthereaper just answer the question. no hard time. 1st world problems.
especially if it is potato salad
"I would like to have my salad as a soup."
I always hug my potatoes so that they know I care
TierZoo I heard this will also give you a boost in the happiness stat.
TierZoo please do the vegetable meta!
Need a witty comment so I can be noticed by two senpai's at once...
Damn!
What tier are potatoes? I mean, they can clone, which did lead to the great Irish Potato Famine of [insert year] (yes, this is a real thing that lead to the starvation of thousands of Irish), but they can withstand the cold pretty well.
Heck, why not make a tier list for all root vegetals, or all of the well known vegetales?
Incoming Potato buffs confirmed
“What’s more water than watermelon?”
Me: water.
“LETTUCE”
Me: oh. Right
Caliesto pelletier umm u stole my comment
Dk if it was intentional but still...
Its not stealing if its unintentional
TheBlackKnight101 of course. My bad.
You’re not wrong tho
So salad have most water %.
Right?
WRONG!
CUCUMBERS ARE 96% WATER
The Vsauce paradox: Whenever Vsauce says Right?, It is always wrong.
What if he says "I am wrong,Right?"
2:48
OR IS IT
It always is... wrong! It’s always wrong unless it isn’t... sometimes, it’s rare but it’s right!
*Goes to restaurant*
Waiter "What would you like to drink"
Me "Lettuce"
*but 1+1 is 2 RIGHT? ‘WrOoOnG’*
1 + 1 = 3! #truereasonableness
2+2=5
I'll prove that 1+1=3
You thought it's possible huh?
It is possible..one woman plus one man (have sex and have baby) =3
@@deniscelianov7932
Let a = b
That mean a^2=a*b
That mean that a^2-b^2=a*b-b^2
That mean we get
(a-b)*(a+b)=b*(a-b)
Remove a-b we get:
a+b = b
But because a = b
That mean 2b = b
=> 2=1
That mean 1+1=3 is right
Kevin: We are humans right?
Me: Rig-
Kevin: *WRONG*
WHY WOULD YOU SAY RIGHT-- OH HELLO FELLOW HUMAN HA HA
HA
@@-wingsofwasp- hellof fellow human Ha Ha HA funny joke
It is such a meme HA HA
•_•_ _ _ _•••_ _ _ _
@@zejdland Is that supposed to be morse code?
@@zejdland Well, there aren't any spaces...
no we are dancers
But steel is heavier than feathers
not under zero-g
1 pound of air is heavier than half a pound of steel
You should have wright BuT stEeL iS heAVieR ThaN FEathEr
What about the weight of what you did to all those birds...
@@lukeives7396 comment stealer
The potato paradox is how my 10-year old PC can still play modern games...
I just spat out my coffee 🤣
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I get it it's because your computer is a potatoe from Ireland
maybe you should change your VGA display.
Slavism is bad. #potatoslifesmatter
How is your 13 year old pc now
Kevin : "You must hug your potatoes to show that you care" [3:26]
_As a person who has gone to Ireland for vacation twice, I can confirm this is why the potatoes there are so high quality_
"What's more water than watermelon?"
Uh... Water?
"Lettuce"
Oh
“You must hug your potatoes so that they know that you care”- Kevin, from Vsauce2
Unboiled Egg I
I have a good habit always reading the comment at the time he says it
The one that fell off must think he doesn't care :(
"I'm how to basic"
Kevin, from vsauce 2
I was the 666th like
You made Mr. Potato Head stand in the corpses of his friends. He had the thousand yard stare going on.
Wesley Boyer is it true that pain is beauty?
Maybe gravy in this case.
Taters aren't dead
I watched 2 wwii iwo jima videos right before this vsass
2:29 "probably broke the scale"
me every day when i stand on my scale
5:55 ...
THAT ONE POTATO
"Excuse me potatoes"
-My teacher to my class
I had to double check it wasn't April 1st half way through this video
Me too. This video was so bad
John Redcorn Thought the same thing.
You're the only vsauce that actually uploads
not true, micheal uploads on dong still
VonHousin is that vsauce. no
vsauce actually has a lot of good content on it as well. you just have to pay to watch it.
it's too bad they went to that format, vsauce used to be one of my favorite channels
Is this VSause? Imo Michaels latest video on DONG is way more informative than this.
This is like talks 5 minutes about simple mathematical equation.
7:03 yo my dude kevin is a damn robot he just picked up the pen prefectly without looking away from the camera
This was like the least paradoxical paradox I’ve ever encountered
Well think about this...
Cheese has holes
More cheese=more holes
More holes=less cheese
More cheese=less cheese
🤯 🧀
Perfect analogy for this sorry excuse of a “paradox”
A larger block of cheese still has a greater mass than the smaller block so therefore you don’t get less cheese. The mass is based off actual solid cheese and not the holes.
Classic
The important point (like in the video) is the % of solid, not the total weight.
So more cheese in mass does not change the percentage of solid in the cheese. You still have the same amount of cheese, if you take the % of the volume.
So it is a paradox if you choose to use the % instead of the real weight.
Ry Gui woah
1% = 1/100
2%= 1/50
Makes sense to me bucko
1% = 1/100
2% = 1/50 or 2/100
I really hope you were joking but if not,then oh boy
@@demenetori7976 He's not. 1 pound of potato material remains after dehydration. So you can just ask yourself "1 pound of potato material is 2% of how many total potato pounds?" to answer the question. 1 pound is 2% of 50 pounds since 1/50 equals .02. Although 1/50 is equivalent to 2/100, in this example 2/100 would be for a different potato, since our potato still only has 1 pound of potato material not 2. These potatoes are however similar (as in, similar triangles from geometry class).
@@demenetori7976 you got wooshed on a "joke" but it wasn't a joke (it's fact) but it has "joke" material and yeah you arn't totally wrong (2%= 1/50 or 2/100)
but he said potato dried not grow more potato stuff so you are kinda wrong you did got your fact right but you didnt got what he ment so i call this woooshed on a non-joke
Mr. McAwesome 1/50 is literally 1/100 x 2....
@@demenetori7976 What he said is literally the explanation in a nutshell.
I’m a couch potato, eating potato chips, while watching this on a potato phone, on a potato farm.
Where are the potato bugs?
*some seemingly rhetorical question* kevin: WRONG!
"You must hug your potatoes, so that they know that you care."
- Vsauce2, 2018
"Excuse me potatoes."
-Vsauce2, 2018
Lol
lol the exact same comment from one day after this one was liked, not this one, although they are just one below the other, GET REKT
the real paradox is that, this simple math problem is called a paradox
Well that could be explained with a scale...
Watch his video and you'll know.
Grubiantoll I don't think people got your joke.
+Aaron Lowe thanks now I get that it was a joke and that you werent joking that it was and I also get the joke itself because I reread the original comment
+Grubiantoll my definition of paradox is "a question which is unanswerable due not to a lack of information but rather the nature of the question itself"
Examples of things which are _almost_ paradoxes:
- This statement is false. (because the paradox is "is the statement true or false?")
- I always lie. (because same as the one before and also, not always lying is not necessarily never lying)
- The Fermi Paradox (because really we are just lacking in information)
- x=1+x what is x? (because x=1+1+1+⋯=∞ using recursive substitution)
- What does the fox say? (becaause really we are just lacking in information)
- What other paradoxes are there? (because really we are just lacking in information, JK this one is not even remotely a paradox)
0:58
That music =
*50% Stranger Things Intro + 50% Electrodynamix*
Someone put that in a T-Shirt
Salads are 5% away from being soup
Cosmic Potato YES! Someone please do that!
@@elliotthill7008 great idea front logo Right? Back of tee WRONG!
Since when is soup 100% water?
this should be kevin’s merchandise
*YOU MUST HUG YOUR POTATOES!*
Idk why, but I felt that
So that they know you care
A true Irishman would always do that.
I LOVE FRENCH FRIES!!!
You must hug your potatoes so they know you care
The sound of your marker scraping against your paper hurts my teeth. I can't explain why, but it does.
I know what you mean lol. Glad I'm not the only one
It gives me goosebumps
All of you have a serious mental illness and should probably see a doctor.
I thought I was weird
Wow that’s very specific
The paradox lays in the way the question is asked, confusing between percentages and quantities. By removing 1 part of water out of 99, the solid goes from 1% to 1,01% and not 2%, while the water goes from 99% to 98,99%. How much water do you need to remove to get the solid become 2%? Way easier to understand.
Ah hah! thank you!
Thank you.
What he said confused me only...
I feel like he's explaining two separate concepts.
First is :- What would be left after 1% evaporates? Removing 1% of 100 lb which would leave almost 99 lb. [Depending if it were by weight or by volume]
Second is:- Doubling the solid content from 1% to 2% which would equate to removing 50% of the water content.
Those are two separate things.
The solid content did not double. The water content just halved
@@itismethatguy No, the water content didn't half nor did the solid content double. The assumption that losing 1% of water results in 2% of the total being solids is simply wrong.
@@uweschroeder This isn’t an assumption at all. Losing weight from 99% of water for 100 lb to 98% of water entails that the total weight on which the 98% water is obtained must be decreased to 50 lb, namely, solid accounts for 2% of weight, still 1 lb, and water must be 49 lb now.
@@yongmrchen So assume you weigh 100kg, 1% of which are solids. So it's 99kg of water and 1 kg of solids. Now you take a laxative and expel 1% of the water, that is about 990grams of water. That does not mean that the solids are suddenly 1.9kg, because you don't weigh 100kg anymore.
So doing the "it's suddenly 2% solids" is nothing but a percentage calculation that has no base in reality, because the new 100% of which to base your solids content is less than the 100kg. By the end of the day, what you do is increase the solids concentration, so you mess with the mixture but one percent of 99% is still 0.99% and not 50%
PS: What you assume is that the ratio of solids to water remains constant, but that isn't the case or dehydration wouldn't work.
@uweschroeder Actually, I think you totally misunderstood what the key information in the so-called paradox but not-a-paradox-at-all case. The decrease in the potato weight that is measured, and entirely caused, by the decresae of water from the original 99% of total weight to the current 98% of total weight (this can only happen when you end up having 49 lb water and 1 lb solid, and solid remains unchanged) is NOT the same as the water that decreases from 99% of the water to the 98% of the water. If the question itself may not be so clear, the explanation in the video is crystal clear.
But it _is_ based on a misunderstanding.
If it was presented as "you have 1 red ball and 99 yellow balls, how many yellow balls would you have to remove for the red ball to be 2 percent of the balls?" most people would not have a problem with this.
But... That's not the point.
yeah this guy seems to enjoy developing videos in a manner that is difficult to comprehend. Your analogy made it much easier to grasp.
That is STILL not the point, so I am really unsure if people got the point about this being a Paradox.
I haven't said anything about it being or not being a paradox?
However, the reason for it being one is _misunderstanding_ , although he specifically states in the video that it isn't (7:20 mark).
While the "problem" has a true answer easy to calculate, the factors are presented in a confusing way which is resulting in a veridical paradox. Ie, it's made to be misunderstood.
I suspect you misunderstood the point of my original comment, so I'm not sure what point your replies are refering to.
It's the same analogy as the silver potato really, but he is explaining it in a pretty roundabout manner when presenting the solution.
Not a paradox at all. Similar to most of these paradox videos. Like 1% of these videos are actual paradox videos. The rest are just 5% away from being soup.
Arya Khonsari, you win one internet! 👍
A soup that you could reconfigure into the Sun if you bring Banach-Tarski into play.
This is a real paradox though
It really isn't . When a potato drys up it loses 1% of its water the potato consequently loses some of its weight. Why would you take away the 1% of water and add 1% of the potato solids? the water doesn't become a solid it just goes away and the rest of the 99% of the potato would become the new 100% as the 1% of the water that has dried up is no longer part of the potato.
exactly. entertaining video but the premise is completely wrong. you lose 1% of 99# of water so you are left with 1# of mass still, and 1% less water. or 98.1# total. I have no idea were he came up with the rest of his nonsense.
I like how's he's trying to sound so serious while Talkin about potatoes
Same here
2:54 it's so unsatisfying that he didn't say "wrong"
"Potatoes Are Delicious!"
-Colorado Potato Beetles, 1811
Person A: Hey, want some salad?
Person B: ...That's a water bottle.
Person A: Eh, close enough.
This man took things into real to make us understand. I love your videos please keep trying to teach us about paradoxes and many more stuff
I knew the awnser, cause the water can avaperate but the solid potato can’t gat more
Easier solution with easier presentation: "1 lbs in 100 lbs = 1% " --> "1 lbs in ? lbs =2%"
He misleadingly made a very simple question and *twisted* it to make it look more complicated.
That's the *opposite* of what an *educator* is supposed to do!
But why pounds? Its amazing how adding pounds helps your brain understand it but others would rather imagine potatos...
I honestly have no idea what you are saying with this. I like how he explained it more
Dale Crane it’s the same answer as the video
1 / 100 = .01 or 1% and 1 / x = .02 or 2%
x = 50
he made it very complicated
Well it wouldn’t be a paradox if he made it simple. Because vsauce doesn’t know what a paradox is.
This doesn’t feel like a Vsause episode.
It is indeed different from the others. Kevin's videos are sometimes goofy and funny, sometimes they give you the goose bumps for making you feel the gravity of this universe (haha). This was definitely a goofy one.
c'mon guys we got Shona, it at least /sounded/ like a vsauce episode lol
I feel betrayed...this was just a "trick question" episode. :(
I mean yeah it's a little different from a "traditional" vsauce video but the personality is the same and nevertheless it was still quite an interesting topic and explanation.
It's basic math + misleading information. Leaving it out "overnight" to dry a little is not an appropriate way to increase the concentration of solids by 100%.
"You want ants? This is how you get ants."
Is Kevin always like this? He seems a little strung out
2:50when hes circling "wrong" some one needs to make that into a gif!
Vsauce is just meme gold
If someone links this please post it here
@ לביא גלזמן I don't think anybody thought he would do it himself XD
Thanks~!
Will do
"Too much water"
-IGN
Im so glad i get this
Mudkip?
7.8/10
Jochem Fliervoet
Ya it's from their review of Battletoads for the Wii
RealGamerManz And more recently their review on Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire remakes.
He has such a dry, sarcastic sense of humor and I crack up every time I watch these videos. I love it 😂
Definitely one of the funniest videos! I laughed more than I learned. I still don't understand this damn potato paradox!
Haven't watched any vSauce content in years. Today I was curious and watched this video. Yep, he has gone insane...
Don’t worry, it’s just small potatoes
Henry Flores yes
...so did the video title "Should You Eat Yourself?" not tip you off?
J1428753 Like I said, haven't watched any vSauce (1,2 or 3) content of any kind in years. Last I remember Kevin was with a beanie.
The howtobasic paradox.
Simte is he really how to basic???
The Black Swordsman I am Howtobasic
The Black Swordsman yes
No I'm Howtobasic
IM HOWTOBASIC
So am I like 40% away from being soup?
“the beetles were right”
that was *very* ominous
Seems less a paradox and more of a question poorly asked.
Thexsoar the Bearded rather a question poorly answered
It's a veridical paradox - a surprising but true answer. A poorly asked question is a paradox of vagueness, which would be a type of falsidical paradox.
Yes... If you say "1% OF the water evaporates over night" than you don't have the shown outcome.... So from 100 water molecules 99 would be left. It's a question of what you look at....
true.
No, it's just your brain taking the fast way. Every body does it if the answer seem simple.
Jesus, I think everyone one at Vsauce is losing their damn minds.
each video, they act crazier and crazier, but still with the spit facts.
Stopped watching any VSauce video since they've slowly spiraled into non sequitur madness. The old videos were weird, but they made sense. These on the other hand...
After gaining a certain amount of insight, you begin sinking into madness.
How does this not make sense it is so simple. Plus just because they made one video that isn't that wierd compared to others doesn't mean that they just quit making interesting videos.
Agreed, tis the holy grail
Found this channel a few days ago and I’m obsessed
My favorite part of VSauce videos I that I can rewatch them time and again and they are enjoyable. I've seen this like 5 times and have just rewatched it all the way through. Thanks
I love it how you can watch each vsauce channel goes insane. It's quite beautiful
I think he is slowly turning crazy. (Which is a good thing)
goals.
Into vsauce 1
The way this is phrased makes you think 1% of the water evaporated, and not the 1% switching sides.
This “paradox” was one of the heuristics taught in grade 6 math class. Not really that confusing once you finish elementary school
love the way he breaks into laughter by himself like a mad scientist
Brain.exe has stopped working
Your computer is a godamn potato, thats the solution to your application crash issue... I'll see myself out now.
I've got bad news for ya, unless you're
Original mass of solids is 1 lb out of 100 lbs or 1/100 * 100 or 1% solid. Remove 1 lb of water and the total mass is now 99 lbs. Solid part is now 1/99 * 100 or 1.01% of mass, not 2% of mass. Your math is fail.
I was confused why I wasn't subscribed to you. I mean come on, I watch your content almost every day
this feels like more of a trick question than a paradox
Paradox:
"A statement that is *_seemingly_* contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true"
Now I have to question your reading comprehension skills.
Ironically - if you think so... you're ignorant.
It's not a paradox because the answer to the question is immediately apparent and completely intuitive. The dry mass doubled in proportion so the total mass must have dropped in half. If you didn't figure it out in under a second you're probably brain damaged.
People like you are intellectual clowns.
The opposite of this is telling people that one drink a day doubles your risk of throat cancer. Okay, so instead of the risk being like 1 in 1,000 it's closer to 2 in 1,000. That's an increase of only 0.1% of the sample size, but it's still a 100% increase in throat cancer risk. (Not the actual risk assessment figures; just numbers used as a hypothetical example)
Oh man! What u wrote clicked with me instantly!
I thought I was going crazy while watching this, and worse yet, feeling disillusioned with it all.
So thank you. :)
Good point.
Which is why one should always ask "Is this relative risk?" when newspaper headlines make the shocking claim that X increases your risk of cancer (or dementia, or heart disease, or some other harm) by 80%.
Which is why the news uses this all the time to shock people.
Oh dang, gotta check the replies before I comment. Good thing I'm not the only one tired of this
The sound of marker on marker board is only slightly more satisfying than nails on a chalkboard.
How is that a paradox? I got it in less than a second after you asked.
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.
Whats taters eh?
It sounds like your potatoes need a hug.
bird's eye potato waaaaaffles
Peace & Love slice super thin and make a nice caserol too. Chives. Cheese. Boom.
Make vodka out of them
But what's more watery than lettuce... WATEr it is about %100 water
TheDeepDebunk damn ur right water is about 100% water. Or... is it? (Vsauce theme)
WRONG
Rellek Llepham WATER IS MADE FROM OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN....
but what is hydrogen?
Actually I mean that usually water contains other matter if it is not distilled)
About bot exactly rellek...so u r WRONG
"this 1% change in composition cuts it's weight in half."
it might look like a 1% change... but technically you DOUBLED it's % of solid composition by removing water, so then you divided the water composition by half.
Seems like a lot of Vsauce videos try to make paradoxes and stuff sound like some sort of jedi mind trick by not really explaining the problem or the way it works logically.
But the total is 99% of the original
Thus, you do not need to double the solid.
The math in this video was good right?
WRONG.
this dude is a menace, not only did he destroy that scale and not care, but doesn't even blink when he has a voice crack
The problem is the *98% and 2%* measurements of the potato, after a night has passed, *are percentages of the new potato,* not the original... let me explain:
If the potato is 100kg and 1% of that weight is solid, then the solid obviously weighs 1kg and the water weighs 99kg.
Then you take away 1% of the weight, in water, and you are left with 98kg of water, and still 1kg of the solid.
Thus the potato *does weigh 99kg.*
The error is in saying the unchanged solid is then 2% of the potato's total weight. If the solid (1kg) was 2% of the potato, then yes, it would weigh 50kg in total. *But you wouldn't presume this is the case, the way he describes it.* 1kg, after the removal of some of the water actually accounts for 1/99 or ~1.0101%.
Hopefully this clears it up for some people :)
And yes, I know I used kg, but it doesn't make a difference as we are discussing percentages and unspecified measurements, also I'm not sure what the abbreviation for pounds is, or really how they work at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
VexinatorDesigns Kevin used it in the video, it's : "lb"
VexinatorDesigns I highly appreciate the clarification of to which I couldn’t understand prior to this comment and I thank thee.
Note;
Especially that part where you said that 2% of the unchanged solid is still 1kg
Another Note:
Pounds is Lbs or lbs
VexinatorDesigns thanks for commenting this so i didnt have to. Also pounds is abreviated as
lb or lbs
That is el be or el be ess
Thanks, now it makes sense. So this was more of a trick question than a paradox :\
Nicat Memmedov yeah, definately agree
You know what has a higher concentration of water?
Water
But not every water
water you talking about?
(sorry, I'll go now)
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I prefer dihydrogen oxide.
I was thinking that too loo
This is one of my favourite paradox
VSauce: Patato Paradox
Me: *a PoTaTo fLeW ArOuNd mY RoOm bEFoRe yOu CaMe!*
Frank Ocean.
Who would win?
100 Potatoes
or
One Smart Boi
Smart boi, or will he?🤪
when you find out that salad is 95% soup
Skelyvelocirap which would mean that soup is how much % water?
Soup is a drink.
Since when is soup 100% water?
@@mynameisworld in my school it is
Another paradox. If mistakes are good for you because they help you not make the same mistake or another mistake. Then are they bad because they’re stoping you from doing something good. But if they’re bad they help u not do something bad. So they’re now good? Paradox.
fu i had that one circling in my mind too allrdy^^
eh i just broke it down..: mistakes are bad either way but after it happened thats the only constructive way to look at the mistake
2:08 Water: Am I a joke to you
I thought he would say water but no
Poorly stated problems are not paradoxes.
Not poorly stated, just counterintuitive.
It's a veridical paradox - a surprising but true answer. A poorly asked question is a paradox of vagueness, which would be a type of falsidical paradox.
A veridical paradox isn't a paradox, that's a misnomer. This question isn't a paradox, simple as that.
and in case of debate: Paradox, noun "a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true."
A paradox must be self-contradictory, even if only apparently so, but the logic used to support this supposed "paradox" is flawed, not well founded nor logically acceptable, therefore, this is in fact not a paradox.
EclipsedArchon "Paradox, noun " a SEEMINGLY absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition [...]"
A paradox MUST be self-contradictory [...]". Nice logic you got there.
If it's looked at step by step percentage reduction, it is easy to see why it is not a paradox.
99 + 1 = 100 (99% water)
98 + 1 = 99 (98/99 = 98.98% water)
97 + 1 = 98 (97/98 = 98.87% water)
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50 + 1 = 51 (50/51 = 98.03% water)
49 + 1 = 50 (49/50 = 98% water)
He literally said in the video that not all paradoxes have no clear answer. Feel free to search up the definitions of paradox.
Since many see the progression of 1 to 2 as 1+1 rather than 1*2, many get a wrong answer at first, therefore it is a paradox. It's _kind_ of like, "the more you cut at a net, the fewer holes there will be" or, "the more you remove from a hole, the larger it is." It's completely logical, but it may seem illogical at first.
This doesn't feel like a paradox, just a common sense
I have literally no idea what you just said... But I enjoyed it😂
Hey kevin! A simple way to explain it is that. The 1% of solid potato is equal to 1lbs.
Since the weight of the solid doesn’t change, only its proportion to its weight in which it becomes 2%.
So 1lbs / 2% = 50lbs
Therefore 50lbs less 1lbs of solid is equal to 49 which apparently the weight of the water.
Flies away..
tansan143 I
so basically he has to trick people into making himself look smart.
@Tethlocah1 basically. It's like when people call water Di-hydrogen Monoxide. You make something simple appear over complicated in order to be validated by society.
tansan143 ya well said, I just went algebra on it and it was so easy to understand.
Excellent. And 50lbs of water 6.25gal) wont be evaporating overnight!
This is only a paradox if you're bad at math.
And by *bad* you mean *really really really really really bad* right ?
Agreed. First VSauce video I've disliked
It's not really a paradox, it is more a mind trick where the instinctive response by the brain is wrong, because the brain prefers to take instinctive short cuts than expend energy working things out properly. To over-ride this instinctive reaction, it helps to understand what a percentage actually means, once you realise it is a fraction, then you can think how do you double or halve a fraction by operating on the numerator or denominator, then you get to the logical answer.
Joseph Noonan oh please
Adam Lea I would agree. It's not a paradox because it's not counterintuitive. Once you do the math, the result isn't at all confusing or even surprising. However, our heuristics cause us to think of thd wrong answer right away before doing the math.
Another potato paradox:
Everything in the universe is either a potato or not a potato
Biggest paradox is calling this elementary school math problem a paradox.
4:27 7.8/10-IGN
Lol
Militant Pacifist
Best comment here
It's amazing that this joke still exists outside of IGN. Still funny
I get the reference! Pokemon
Militant Pacifist o
This is not a paradox... It's just math.
the paradox is not in the math, but in the way people get it wrong.
speedy01247 People only get it wrong because it's not realistic
Quick mafs!
people getting it wrong doesn't make it a paradox
If I learned one thing from todays video, it's that ive been treating my potato's wrong this whole time. All those poor potatoes I've eaten!!!! From now on I will hug them so they know I care and will never eat them again!
Certainly a good paradox. I focused more on the fact that 2% is double 1%. So the concentration of solid doubled. Since the solid didn’t change, the water must have been cut in half. So 50 lbs. But the whole time I was figuring that out, my intuition was screaming 99 lbs. Veridical paradoxes are more interesting to me than antinomy.
And the way the problem is phrased, it is flawed. Losing 1% water weight doesn’t automatically double the solid weight percentage. If he had phrased it correctly, he should have said they lose enough water to make the solid plant part 2% of the overall weight. Now how much do they weigh? That would be framed correctly.