Ranking Paradoxes, From Least to Most Paradoxical

Some paradoxes are mind blowing and others are... not. But why? Here are 24 paradoxes, ranked from least to most paradoxical by my former students.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:39 Veridical Paradoxes
4:14 Philosophy and Science
9:51 (More) Veridical Paradoxes
12:45 Infinity is Weird
16:56 Self-referential Paradoxes
18:50 Miscellaneous Paradoxes
21:59 The Top Three
24:31 Patreon Announcement

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References

Banach-Tarski Paradox (YouTube video):    • The Banach–Tarski Paradox  
Birthday Paradox (fun news article): https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...
Birthday Paradox (the calculation): https://www.nku.edu/~christensen/birt...
Braess' Paradox (blog): https://www.murky.org/blog/2020-7/bra...
Gabriel’s Wedding Cake: https://www.matharticles.com/ma/ma044...
Liar Paradox: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/li...
Monty Hall Problem (YouTube video):    • The Monty Hall Problem  
Paradox of the Heap: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/so...
Ross-Littlewood Paradox (YouTube video):    • Stochastic Supertasks | Infinite Series  
Ship of Theseus (YouTube video with other versions):    • PHILOSOPHY - Metaphysics: Ship of Theseus ...  
Simpson’s Paradox (YouTube video):    • Simpson's Paradox  
Simpson's Paradox (research article): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.07180
St Petersburg (the calculation): https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SaintPe...
Zeno’s Paradoxes: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pa...

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Huge thank you to Mariano Zomeño for the Spanish translation subtitles

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Created by Kelsey Houston-Edwards
Website: https://www.kelseyhoustonedwards.com