Decision-making paradoxes

Fenno's paradox

Fenno's paradox is the belief that people generally disapprove of the United States Congress as a whole, but support the congressmen from their own congressional districts. It is named after political scientist Richard Fenno, who discussed this in his 1978 book Home Style: House Members in Their Districts. Fenno discovered that congressmen would often run against Congress. "Fenno's paradox" has also been applied to areas other than politics including public schools. For example, U.S. citizens largely disapprove of the public school system, but tend to like the particular local schools their children attend. (Wikipedia).

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Viviani's Theorem: "Proof" Without Words

Link: https://www.geogebra.org/m/BXUrfwxj

From playlist Geometry: Challenge Problems

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(IC 4.1) Huffman coding - introduction and example

Background on the Huffman coding algorithm, and illustration with a simple example. A playlist of these videos is available at: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE125425EC837021F

From playlist Information theory and Coding

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The weirdest paradox in statistics (and machine learning)

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From playlist Novel topics (not in usual math curricula)

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Relativity: how people get time dilation wrong

Einstein’s special theory of relativity is notorious for being easy to misuse, with the result that sometimes result in claims of paradoxes. When one digs more carefully into the theory, you find that no such paradoxes actually exist. In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln describes a

From playlist Relativity

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This Math Theorem Proves that 1=1+1 | The Banach-Tarskis Paradox

Mathematicians are in nearly universal agreement that the strangest paradox in math is the Banach-Tarski paradox, in which you can split one ball into a finite number of pieces, then rearrange the pieces to get two balls of the same size. Interestingly, only a minority of mathematicians ha

From playlist Math and Statistics

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B25 Example problem solving for a Bernoulli equation

See how to solve a Bernoulli equation.

From playlist Differential Equations

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How to Solve the Liar Paradox

Most paradoxes either stem from the misunderstanding of a topic, or aren't really paradoxes. However, here is a paradox that seems to contradict logic itself. What's going on here? And what does the liar paradox have to do with computer science? #some2

From playlist Summer of Math Exposition 2 videos

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Martians! How Aliens Invaded Earth | Monstrum

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From playlist Monsters and Mystery

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Solve a Bernoulli Differential Equation (Part 2)

This video provides an example of how to solve an Bernoulli Differential Equation. The solution is verified graphically. Library: http://mathispower4u.com

From playlist Bernoulli Differential Equations

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Ex: Solve a Bernoulli Differential Equation Using Separation of Variables

This video explains how to solve a Bernoulli differential equation. http://mathispower4u.com

From playlist Bernoulli Differential Equations

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ISPS DEMOCRACY SERIES: Safe Seats and Female (under)representation in the U.S. Congress

Yale scholars Ian Shapiro, Alex Kustov, and Akhil Rajan present new work (co-authored with Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Maikol Cerda), with discussion of the research by Frances Lee (Princeton) and Jonathan Rodden (Stanford).  This virtual event was hosted by the Institution for Social an

From playlist The Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS)

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Huffman Codes: An Information Theory Perspective

Huffman Codes are one of the most important discoveries in the field of data compression. When you first see them, they almost feel obvious in hindsight, mainly due to how simple and elegant the algorithm ends up being. But there's an underlying story of how they were discovered by Huffman

From playlist Data Compression

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B24 Introduction to the Bernoulli Equation

The Bernoulli equation follows from a linear equation in standard form.

From playlist Differential Equations

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WTF Are Paradoxes & How Do They Mess Up Time Travel?

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From playlist Have We Already Time Traveled?

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Even More Paradoxical: The Twin Paradox in Curved Spacetime

The Twin Paradox gets a stranger, even more mind-bending upgrade in General Relativity's world of curved spacetime. We explore the surprising and relatively unknown results to these new scenarios, while getting our toes wet in some of GR's conceptual frameworks. And finally, after several

From playlist Summer of Math Exposition Youtube Videos

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Revisiting the black hole information paradox by Pushkal Shrivastava

ICTS IN-HOUSE 2020 Organizers: Amit Kumar Chatterjee, Divya Jaganathan, Junaid Majeed, Pritha Dolai Date:: 17-18th February 2020 Venue: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore inhouse@icts.res.in An exclusive two-day event to exchange ideas and discuss research amongst member

From playlist ICTS In-house 2020

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Can We Break the Universe?

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From playlist The Real Science of Warp Drives, Wormoholes and Faster Than Light (FTL) Travel

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Set Theory (Part 2a): Russell's Paradox

Please feel free to leave comments/questions on the video below! In this video, I briefly speak about the Russell paradox and why ZFC avoids this paradox when discussing pathological sets. One should hopefully see why it is that this paradox is disastrous for the naive set theory adopted

From playlist Set Theory by Mathoma

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Four Fascinating Paradoxes | Wondrium Perspectives

Paradoxes can be mind-bending, frustrating, or enjoyable puzzles to solve. Whether they come from the realm of time travel or everyday life, paradoxes can spur some of our deepest thinking and most perplexing views of the world around us. In this episode of Perspectives, several experts c

From playlist Wondrium Perspectives

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