> > 16. If you let a 100g strawberry that is 99% water by mass dehydrate such that the water now accounts for 98% of the total mass then its new mass is 50g: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox
>I really like this one. It's a perfect combo of intuitive from one perspective and mind bending from another.
Comes up a lot lately because of vaccine effectiveness e.g. 95% is twice as effective as 90%.
just as going from 98% effectiveness to 99% effectiveness halves your risk (you go from 2% chance of falling ill to 1%)
its a common concept in games in which armor follows a linear formula (each point of armor is more effective than the last when calculating effective health)
>I really like this one. It's a perfect combo of intuitive from one perspective and mind bending from another.
Comes up a lot lately because of vaccine effectiveness e.g. 95% is twice as effective as 90%.