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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Origins of Colorado Potato Beetle: phys.org/news/2018-03-major-p...
Colorado Potato Beetle Genome Research and Propaganda History: news.wisc.edu/colorado-potato...
Czechoslovakian American Beetle Propaganda Video: • American Bug (English ...
USDA Food Composition Data: ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/sh...
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Комментарии : 8 тыс.

@Vsauce2 6 лет назад

Go tell someone that salad is 5% away from being soup.

@i_RNGesus_i 6 лет назад

I wanted to be salad when I was a kid :)

@tbrickman 6 лет назад

Told my mom. She replied with a simple "hm."

@everyyoutuberever6935 6 лет назад

Mission Accepted

@Strawberrymilkdrink 6 лет назад

Vsauce2 no

@StonedCactus 6 лет назад

yes

@alltheaudios3162 5 лет назад

Kevin: what's more water than watermelon? Me: water.

@suomusintti 5 лет назад

Heheh🤣

@ianmccreary331 4 года назад

Thats what i said in my head 😂

@ytterbius2900 4 года назад

It's like you read my mind!

@PearoIGuess 4 года назад

Salad

@triforceflyforce5831 4 года назад

Insert why are you booing me meme

@shotbyp4ul 5 лет назад

Newborns are 15% away from being soup.

@SubscriberswithoutanyVid-rg7oh 5 лет назад

Supscribe 4 if you are creative enough that can be 100% easy

@humanatee6639 5 лет назад

🙁🤢🤮

@annoyedredhead3151 5 лет назад

@@humanatee6639 it's the internet get over it

@sava28 5 лет назад

r/cursedcomments

@man4437 5 лет назад

0% after a good blendin'

@enione7251 5 лет назад

Famous catchphrases: Michael: Or is it? Kevin: WRONG

@Gras_Sho_Pper 5 лет назад

How bout Jake

@Sam-Pound 5 лет назад

What about jake?

@demenetori7976 5 лет назад

Jake : Who is jake

@MrJJBhizzle 5 лет назад

He lly This is a theory...😂

@tree_stain 4 года назад

You forgot jake

@happyfakeboulder644 4 года назад

"You must hug your potatoes so that they know that you care." -- Kevin, 2018

@vairus7740 3 года назад

i heard that exactly when i read the comment😐

@potatoeguy5690 3 года назад

True

@sushmaberlia9881 3 года назад

Search on RU-vid how potatoes saved the world

@lakurkuma8113 3 года назад

2017*

@lakurkuma8113 3 года назад

@Rafal رفل from mobile It shows 3 years ago

@SirWrender 6 лет назад

Next time I get asked if I want "soup or salad" I might have an existential crisis...

@tonihurani1325 6 лет назад

What is a SuperSalad???

@nblade66 6 лет назад

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?

@hansdampf478 6 лет назад

@wrenthereaper just answer the question. no hard time. 1st world problems.

@ML-iw9zg 6 лет назад

especially if it is potato salad

@TheRguru1 6 лет назад

"I would like to have my salad as a soup."

@ErikDaGreat 5 лет назад

Someone: right? Vsauce: *_WRONG_*

@theabyssaldemon 5 лет назад

Erik *proceeds to circle wrong with a sharpie*

@Catboy34uwu 3 года назад

This is the requirement to become a Vsauce

@chriscj9007 5 лет назад

The Vsauce paradox: Whenever Vsauce says Right?, It is always wrong.

@NbaYoungboylover 2 года назад

What if he says "I am wrong,Right?"

@eseopu 2 года назад

2:48

@light_asaii4858 Год назад

OR IS IT

@skarma9673 Год назад

It always is... wrong! It’s always wrong unless it isn’t... sometimes, it’s rare but it’s right!

@ezip8564 5 лет назад

Waiter: soup or salad? Kevin: *yes*

@crabbiejason7261 5 лет назад

Thank you for blessing me with this comment

@TheZoneEater 5 лет назад

*W R O N G*

@ayeariola 4 года назад

Super salad

@jackherrod2294 4 года назад

Boolean Logic strikes again

@kaathlynconnor261 4 года назад

I have a feeling someone is going to get r/woooshed here

@TierZoo 6 лет назад

I always hug my potatoes so that they know I care

@lucafrancis3222 6 лет назад

TierZoo I heard this will also give you a boost in the happiness stat.

@jackstone112 6 лет назад

TierZoo please do the vegetable meta!

@MRFAFF3L 6 лет назад

Need a witty comment so I can be noticed by two senpai's at once... Damn!

@PolyChromium 6 лет назад

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?

@YouSwellow 6 лет назад

Incoming Potato buffs confirmed

@tiny021085 5 лет назад

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.

@misheck3861 5 лет назад

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.

@mimszanadunstedt441 5 лет назад

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.

@kumbu132 5 лет назад

@@misheck3861 yeh

@ElleryPayne 5 лет назад

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.

@allennaliath2477 5 лет назад

Exactly. I got 50lbs, and people who’ve taken an Algebra course should get this as well. Not remotely close to a paradox.

@azurepelletier1574 4 года назад

“What’s more water than watermelon?” Me: water. “LETTUCE” Me: oh. Right

@alltheaudios3162 4 года назад

Caliesto pelletier umm u stole my comment Dk if it was intentional but still...

@theblackknight101 4 года назад

Its not stealing if its unintentional

@alltheaudios3162 4 года назад

TheBlackKnight101 of course. My bad.

@sylver8919 3 года назад

You’re not wrong tho

@kremenskiyjr 2 года назад

So salad have most water %. Right? WRONG! CUCUMBERS ARE 96% WATER

@DG-ov6ps 5 лет назад

*but 1+1 is 2 RIGHT? ‘WrOoOnG’*

@zabooka 5 лет назад

1 + 1 = 3! #truereasonableness

@farenhite4329 5 лет назад

2+2=5

@deniscelianov7932 5 лет назад

I'll prove that 1+1=3 You thought it's possible huh?

@longjohnw86 4 года назад

It is possible..one woman plus one man (have sex and have baby) =3

@kharkovluzhin8333 4 года назад

@@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

@milothedinosaur2911 6 лет назад

Jesus can walk on water, I can walk on Lettuce, Lettuce is 95% water, I am 95% Jesus

@Kusogacha 6 лет назад

Jesus can walk on water I can walk on ice Ice is 100% water I am Jesus

@kisdoboz 6 лет назад

XCaSurge Gaming Are you serious?!

@wurttmapper2200 6 лет назад

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

@wurttmapper2200 6 лет назад

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 RU-vid 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

@ppoppo009 6 лет назад

Wurtt Mapper beautiful

@Turquoise-Official 5 лет назад

Kevin: We are humans right? Me: Rig- Kevin: *WRONG*

@-wingsofwasp- 4 года назад

WHY WOULD YOU SAY RIGHT-- OH HELLO FELLOW HUMAN HA HA HA

@zejdland 4 года назад

@@-wingsofwasp- hellof fellow human Ha Ha HA funny joke It is such a meme HA HA •_•_ _ _ _•••_ _ _ _

@-wingsofwasp- 4 года назад

@@zejdland Is that supposed to be morse code?

@-wingsofwasp- 4 года назад

@@zejdland Well, there aren't any spaces...

@polk-e-dot8177 4 года назад

no we are dancers

@X-SPONGED 2 года назад

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_

@QuantumBraced 6 лет назад

The potato paradox is how my 10-year old PC can still play modern games...

@AMan-xz7tx 5 лет назад

I just spat out my coffee 🤣

@screebok3752 5 лет назад

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I get it it's because your computer is a potatoe from Ireland

@silviuchitic162 5 лет назад

maybe you should change your VGA display.

@usernametaken017 3 года назад

Slavism is bad. #potatoslifesmatter

@scottb9997 2 года назад

How is your 13 year old pc now

@axelvdp1 5 лет назад

But steel is heavier than feathers

@Blox117 5 лет назад

not under zero-g

@benm12310 5 лет назад

1 pound of air is heavier than half a pound of steel

@darkdragon2087 5 лет назад

You should have wright BuT stEeL iS heAVieR ThaN FEathEr

@lukeives7396 5 лет назад

What about the weight of what you did to all those birds...

@morgotp5573 5 лет назад

@@lukeives7396 comment stealer

@benaronson2410 5 лет назад

2:29 "probably broke the scale" me every day when i stand on my scale

@NoName-kj2vf 3 года назад

5:55 ... THAT ONE POTATO

@marin7615 3 года назад

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.

@apreviousseagle836 2 года назад

Ah hah! thank you!

@HostLT Год назад

Thank you. What he said confused me only...

@unboiledegg5765 6 лет назад

“You must hug your potatoes so that they know that you care”- Kevin, from Vsauce2

@chrisbrown7862 6 лет назад

Unboiled Egg I

@slayer4810 6 лет назад

I have a good habit always reading the comment at the time he says it

@LoLorelando 6 лет назад

The one that fell off must think he doesn't care :(

@WaveOfDestiny 6 лет назад

"I'm how to basic" Kevin, from vsauce 2

@teagueshelton7716 6 лет назад

I was the 666th like

@ellacasey7303 5 лет назад

*Goes to restaurant* Waiter "What would you like to drink" Me "Lettuce"

@hmmmmm8716 3 года назад

7:03 yo my dude kevin is a damn robot he just picked up the pen prefectly without looking away from the camera

@astra00700 4 года назад

"What's more water than watermelon?" Uh... Water? "Lettuce" Oh

@wesleyboyer6654 6 лет назад

You made Mr. Potato Head stand in the corpses of his friends. He had the thousand yard stare going on.

@nano-liam 6 лет назад

Wesley Boyer is it true that pain is beauty?

@wesleyboyer6654 6 лет назад

Maybe gravy in this case.

@FailedRorschachTest 6 лет назад

Taters aren't dead

@havenosmellleavenoname382 6 лет назад

I watched 2 wwii iwo jima videos right before this vsass

@keymasher08 6 лет назад

I had to double check it wasn't April 1st half way through this video

@graalcloud 6 лет назад

Me too. This video was so bad

@Howuf 6 лет назад

John Redcorn Thought the same thing.

@londonerdanny 2 года назад

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.

@itismethatguy Год назад

The solid content did not double. The water content just halved

@uweschroeder Год назад

@@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.

@yongmrchen Год назад

@@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.

@uweschroeder Год назад

@@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.

@yongmrchen Год назад

@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.

@szczur0192 5 лет назад

"Excuse me potatoes" -My teacher to my class

@sideswipebl 6 лет назад

"You must hug your potatoes, so that they know that you care." - Vsauce2, 2018

@cooleslaw 6 лет назад

"Excuse me potatoes." -Vsauce2, 2018

@epicstimulus282 6 лет назад

Lol

@tryphonunzouave8384 6 лет назад

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

@uniteddetinu7750 5 лет назад

The sound of your marker scraping against your paper hurts my teeth. I can't explain why, but it does.

@russnotgus3803 5 лет назад

I know what you mean lol. Glad I'm not the only one

@spoonkey 5 лет назад

It gives me goosebumps

@6ohflip 5 лет назад

All of you have a serious mental illness and should probably see a doctor.

@EternalWithin 5 лет назад

I thought I was weird

@Cherryfish386 5 лет назад

Wow that’s very specific

@cosmicpotato3849 5 лет назад

Someone put that in a T-Shirt Salads are 5% away from being soup

@NStripleseven 4 года назад

Cosmic Potato YES! Someone please do that!

@ChronicSkater 3 года назад

@@elliotthill7008 great idea front logo Right? Back of tee WRONG!

@mynameisworld 3 года назад

Since when is soup 100% water?

@maahinifuria7857 2 года назад

this should be kevin’s merchandise

@Psychonaut165 Год назад

This was like the least paradoxical paradox I’ve ever encountered

@Tcg8136 6 лет назад

Easier solution with easier presentation: "1 lbs in 100 lbs = 1% " --> "1 lbs in ? lbs =2%"

@kiantamar 6 лет назад

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!

@BrennanKoontz 6 лет назад

But why pounds? Its amazing how adding pounds helps your brain understand it but others would rather imagine potatos...

@ca7surfer 6 лет назад

I honestly have no idea what you are saying with this. I like how he explained it more

@SuperCommenterGuy 6 лет назад

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

@uncledavid5344 6 лет назад

Well it wouldn’t be a paradox if he made it simple. Because vsauce doesn’t know what a paradox is.

@drunkenmuse 6 лет назад

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.

@MajorLawliet 5 лет назад

But... That's not the point.

@alexchief2317 5 лет назад

yeah this guy seems to enjoy developing videos in a manner that is difficult to comprehend. Your analogy made it much easier to grasp.

@MajorLawliet 5 лет назад

That is STILL not the point, so I am really unsure if people got the point about this being a Paradox.

@drunkenmuse 5 лет назад

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.

@drunkenmuse 5 лет назад

It's the same analogy as the silver potato really, but he is explaining it in a pretty roundabout manner when presenting the solution.

@david_ga8490 4 года назад

0:58 That music = *50% Stranger Things Intro + 50% Electrodynamix*

@bobbiesterling574 5 лет назад

*some seemingly rhetorical question* kevin: WRONG!

@notlawatnotlimbu7874 6 лет назад

2:50when hes circling "wrong" some one needs to make that into a gif!

@hairohukosu433 6 лет назад

Vsauce is just meme gold

@Bonzane 6 лет назад

If someone links this please post it here

@teubert2 6 лет назад

@ לביא גלזמן I don't think anybody thought he would do it himself XD Thanks~!

@epicstimulus282 6 лет назад

Will do

@marcysoucy9522 5 лет назад

*YOU MUST HUG YOUR POTATOES!*

@taylorjackson6091 5 лет назад

Idk why, but I felt that

@jamesgors6650 5 лет назад

So that they know you care

@officerskull2089 5 лет назад

A true Irishman would always do that.

@gavinbrown216 5 лет назад

I LOVE FRENCH FRIES!!!

@kaylenburns5180 5 лет назад

You must hug your potatoes so they know you care

@sumdude3445 4 года назад

I’m a couch potato, eating potato chips, while watching this on a potato phone, on a potato farm.

@unclecreepy4185 3 года назад

Where are the potato bugs?

@xenongd6974 3 года назад

I like how's he's trying to sound so serious while Talkin about potatoes

@LocalJesusGirl 2 года назад

Same here

@ZakJames 6 лет назад

This doesn’t feel like a Vsause episode.

@dunnokki 6 лет назад

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.

@sparkpenguin 6 лет назад

c'mon guys we got Shona, it at least /sounded/ like a vsauce episode lol

@paulanderegg5536 6 лет назад

I feel betrayed...this was just a "trick question" episode. :(

@dolantremp 6 лет назад

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.

@Allanbr2012 6 лет назад

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%.

@mr.mcawesome1154 5 лет назад

1% = 1/100 2%= 1/50 Makes sense to me bucko

@demenetori7976 5 лет назад

1% = 1/100 2% = 1/50 or 2/100 I really hope you were joking but if not,then oh boy

@jamusphillips368 5 лет назад

@@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).

@hgmercury7279 5 лет назад

@@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

@BurgoYT 5 лет назад

Mr. McAwesome 1/50 is literally 1/100 x 2....

@KineticManiac 4 года назад

@@demenetori7976 What he said is literally the explanation in a nutshell.

@mayankmittal16 3 года назад

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

@Foxxey 3 года назад

2:54 it's so unsatisfying that he didn't say "wrong"

@ryanhoffman4079 5 лет назад

Well think about this... Cheese has holes More cheese=more holes More holes=less cheese More cheese=less cheese 🤯 🧀

@HunterHM1489 5 лет назад

Perfect analogy for this sorry excuse of a “paradox”

@mollowrie5264 5 лет назад

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.

@PrgressiveHouse 5 лет назад

Classic

@CodeKiller1999 5 лет назад

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.

@ichigo_miruku_qt843 5 лет назад

Ry Gui woah

@Grubiantoll 6 лет назад

the real paradox is that, this simple math problem is called a paradox

@theatom3936 6 лет назад

Well that could be explained with a scale...

@sunflowertara7047 5 лет назад

Watch his video and you'll know.

@aaronmicalowe 5 лет назад

Grubiantoll I don't think people got your joke.

@chasemarangu 5 лет назад

+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

@chasemarangu 5 лет назад

+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)

@wbstaple8387 5 лет назад

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.

@RaivoltG 3 года назад

Definitely one of the funniest videos! I laughed more than I learned. I still don't understand this damn potato paradox!

@Glac0 6 лет назад

You're the only vsauce that actually uploads

@vonhousin4179 6 лет назад

not true, micheal uploads on dong still

@scruf2002 6 лет назад

VonHousin is that vsauce. no

@vonhousin4179 6 лет назад

vsauce actually has a lot of good content on it as well. you just have to pay to watch it.

@WeArePharmers 6 лет назад

it's too bad they went to that format, vsauce used to be one of my favorite channels

@coolGhostVIRUS 6 лет назад

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.

@arya6085 6 лет назад

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.

@HunterHM1489 5 лет назад

Arya Khonsari, you win one internet! 👍

@phuturephunk 5 лет назад

A soup that you could reconfigure into the Sun if you bring Banach-Tarski into play.

@whatno5090 5 лет назад

This is a real paradox though

@leondong5037 5 лет назад

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.

@slappomatthew 5 лет назад

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.

@jserr50 3 года назад

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

@benedictfleur1238 4 года назад

I knew the awnser, cause the water can avaperate but the solid potato can’t gat more

@5avan10 6 лет назад

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)

@b1aflatoxin 6 лет назад

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. :)

@DeathBringer769 6 лет назад

Good point.

@chillsahoy2640 6 лет назад

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%.

@Layk35 6 лет назад

Which is why the news uses this all the time to shock people.

@Layk35 6 лет назад

Oh dang, gotta check the replies before I comment. Good thing I'm not the only one tired of this

@HenryFlores4 6 лет назад

Haven't watched any vSauce content in years. Today I was curious and watched this video. Yep, he has gone insane...

@vnleao 6 лет назад

Don’t worry, it’s just small potatoes

@-mae-5524 6 лет назад

Henry Flores yes

@J1428753 6 лет назад

...so did the video title "Should You Eat Yourself?" not tip you off?

@HenryFlores4 6 лет назад

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.

@user-sf4fy8bq1h 4 года назад

Is Kevin always like this? He seems a little strung out

@kyrstengorman8980 4 года назад

He has such a dry, sarcastic sense of humor and I crack up every time I watch these videos. I love it 😂

@Simte 6 лет назад

The howtobasic paradox.

@theblackswordsman7558 6 лет назад

Simte is he really how to basic???

@Despotic_Waffle 6 лет назад

The Black Swordsman I am Howtobasic

@theearthisahexagon6534 6 лет назад

The Black Swordsman yes

@mytebello 6 лет назад

No I'm Howtobasic

@bigheccinrat4061 6 лет назад

IM HOWTOBASIC

@Ethanerd 6 лет назад

"Potatoes Are Delicious!" -Colorado Potato Beetles, 1811

@annadoesroblox6205 4 года назад

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.

@2th31 2 года назад

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.

@limediamond3657 5 лет назад

So am I like 40% away from being soup?

@shatteredgod69 6 лет назад

"Too much water" -IGN

@jochemfliervoet1714 6 лет назад

Im so glad i get this

@ToneyCrimson 6 лет назад

Mudkip?

@tonyhoang987 6 лет назад

7.8/10

@VOYAGEUR-YT 6 лет назад

Jochem Fliervoet Ya it's from their review of Battletoads for the Wii

@JadeMythriil 6 лет назад

RealGamerManz And more recently their review on Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire remakes.

@digitalchrome 6 лет назад

I think he is slowly turning crazy. (Which is a good thing)

@Chribit 6 лет назад

goals.

@sarunassimbelis1331 6 лет назад

Into vsauce 1

@finallylegal2125 Месяц назад

This “paradox” was one of the heuristics taught in grade 6 math class. Not really that confusing once you finish elementary school

@damonpono8337 3 года назад

Found this channel a few days ago and I’m obsessed

@ericreeves4 6 лет назад

Jesus, I think everyone one at Vsauce is losing their damn minds.

@ericreeves4 6 лет назад

each video, they act crazier and crazier, but still with the spit facts.

@AngryKittens 6 лет назад

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...

@SSilivone 6 лет назад

After gaining a certain amount of insight, you begin sinking into madness.

@christianmorales8978 6 лет назад

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.

@BlueRock704 6 лет назад

Agreed, tis the holy grail

@thexsoar 6 лет назад

Seems less a paradox and more of a question poorly asked.

@erikjaldell9568 6 лет назад

Thexsoar the Bearded rather a question poorly answered

@StefanTravis 6 лет назад

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.

@besitzerer 6 лет назад

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....

@bobveltman 6 лет назад

true.

@akalaiderxd9686 6 лет назад

No, it's just your brain taking the fast way. Every body does it if the answer seem simple.

@OncelerLover69 5 лет назад

I was confused why I wasn't subscribed to you. I mean come on, I watch your content almost every day

@philjamieson5572 2 года назад

Thanks for this well presented piece. Like most notorious paradoxes though, it's a semantics problem.

@stevenqthan 6 лет назад

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) . . 50 + 1 = 51 (50/51 = 98.03% water) 49 + 1 = 50 (49/50 = 98% water)

@Marispider 6 лет назад

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.

@benc176 6 лет назад

Brain.exe has stopped working

@AMan-xz7tx 5 лет назад

Your computer is a godamn potato, thats the solution to your application crash issue... I'll see myself out now.

@terrrrrrrrrrrrrrry 5 лет назад

I've got bad news for ya, unless you're

@arniedamaniac6206 5 лет назад

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.

@liquidblack477 5 лет назад

fu i had that one circling in my mind too allrdy^^

@liquidblack477 5 лет назад

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

@BloodFortAndromeda 4 года назад

"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.

@johnbailey5835 3 года назад

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.

@georgequilitz8530 5 лет назад

Person A: Hey, want some salad? Person B: ...That's a water bottle. Person A: Eh, close enough.

@21guitarworld 6 лет назад

I love it how you can watch each vsauce channel goes insane. It's quite beautiful

@StuffBudDuz Год назад

The sound of marker on marker board is only slightly more satisfying than nails on a chalkboard.

@emoscrubchan8316 4 года назад

This is one of my favourite paradox

@chrisforreal420 6 лет назад

But what's more watery than lettuce... WATEr it is about %100 water

@alexchief2317 5 лет назад

TheDeepDebunk damn ur right water is about 100% water. Or... is it? (Vsauce theme)

@sickcatboy7745 5 лет назад

WRONG

@Niiue 5 лет назад

Rellek Llepham WATER IS MADE FROM OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN.... but what is hydrogen?

@sickcatboy7745 5 лет назад

Actually I mean that usually water contains other matter if it is not distilled)

@lalleahrahre616 5 лет назад

About bot exactly rellek...so u r WRONG

@Skelyvelocirap 5 лет назад

when you find out that salad is 95% soup

@joshuakerger2897 5 лет назад

Skelyvelocirap which would mean that soup is how much % water? Soup is a drink.

@mynameisworld 3 года назад

Since when is soup 100% water?

@numbdigger9552 3 года назад

@@mynameisworld in my school it is

@larkito3279 5 лет назад

“the beetles were right” that was *very* ominous

@lavihayoun05 Год назад

The way this is phrased makes you think 1% of the water evaporated, and not the 1% switching sides.

@ourochroma 6 лет назад

Who would win? 100 Potatoes or One Smart Boi

@anilpanchal7315 6 лет назад

Smart boi, or will he?🤪

@ArticBlueFox96 6 лет назад

This is much easier if you just represent things as fractions instead of in percents. 1% is 1 out 100. 2% is 1 out of 50. 100 - 50 = 50

@yaaniz1137 6 лет назад

Wait... so 1% of the water = 50% of the total weight of the potato. How can 1% of anything equal 50% of the same thing. *mind explodes*

@sadplane6814 6 лет назад

Wrong, % = percent = per 100 so 2% isnt 1 out of 50 Umm.. wait.. Uh it kinda is i guess..

@Vaydore 5 лет назад

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!

@LeonRichardJones 4 года назад

I have literally no idea what you just said... But I enjoyed it😂

@Stephenmusic92 6 лет назад

Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.

@IvarHuisman 6 лет назад

Whats taters eh?

@AllenGrimm1145 6 лет назад

It sounds like your potatoes need a hug.

@graemepatterson 6 лет назад

bird's eye potato waaaaaffles

@JavierFernandez01 6 лет назад

Peace & Love slice super thin and make a nice caserol too. Chives. Cheese. Boom.

@josephweaver8545 6 лет назад

Make vodka out of them

@militantpacifist4087 6 лет назад

4:27 7.8/10-IGN

@RealGMoneyCracka 6 лет назад

Lol

@zeldafreak2232 6 лет назад

Militant Pacifist Best comment here

@AdamLord 6 лет назад

It's amazing that this joke still exists outside of IGN. Still funny

@hereyncecabrera5519 6 лет назад

I get the reference! Pokemon

@hejmeddig5829 6 лет назад

Militant Pacifist o

@spaceflightnerd 3 года назад

Great video as always, surprised i never watched this one.

@unclecreepy4185 3 года назад

Salad is 5% away from being soup. First off, not sure what that’s suppose to mean since soup isn’t 100% water. But also, if you want to reduce the percentage from 5% to 0.01% (which we’ll say is close enough to 0), you’d have to increase the volume of water 500 times.

@catsoften 6 лет назад

this feels like more of a trick question than a paradox

@futurestoryteller 6 лет назад

Paradox: "A statement that is *_seemingly_* contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true"

@futurestoryteller 6 лет назад

Now I have to question your reading comprehension skills.

@futurestoryteller 6 лет назад

Ironically - if you think so... you're ignorant.

@DevinDTV 6 лет назад

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.

@futurestoryteller 6 лет назад

People like you are intellectual clowns.

@maa6471 5 лет назад

love the way he breaks into laughter by himself like a mad scientist

@MrChip06 2 года назад

If the amount of solid potato doubles to 2%, but you can't change the mass of dry potato, then you need to have the amount of water. That's the way of explaining it that makes most sense to me

@osco4311 5 лет назад

I know RU-vid's algorithms favor videos closer to 10 minutes long, the ending to this video was really stretched out beyond what it needed to be

@VexinatorDesigns 6 лет назад

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)_/¯

@enverko 6 лет назад

VexinatorDesigns Kevin used it in the video, it's : "lb"

@hgc839 6 лет назад

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

@jamesplays8113 6 лет назад

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

@nicat6153 6 лет назад

Thanks, now it makes sense. So this was more of a trick question than a paradox :\

@VexinatorDesigns 6 лет назад

Nicat Memmedov yeah, definately agree

@dillonaumiller 6 лет назад

Poorly stated problems are not paradoxes.

@MegaCuber123 6 лет назад

Not poorly stated, just counterintuitive.

@damiancylkaa5713 6 лет назад

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.

@Eclipsed_Archon 6 лет назад

A veridical paradox isn't a paradox, that's a misnomer. This question isn't a paradox, simple as that.

@Eclipsed_Archon 6 лет назад

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.

@raymondhoovers5460 6 лет назад

EclipsedArchon "Paradox, noun " a SEEMINGLY absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition [...]" A paradox MUST be self-contradictory [...]". Nice logic you got there.

@SuperDantedmc 4 года назад

"You want ants? This is how you get ants."

@kiranaun9593 5 лет назад

This reminds me of checkers and how when you have only a few left making 1 for 1 tradeoffs is beneficial if you have more because of the weird ratios

@alrycaaeveahexendias1236 6 лет назад

2% is not 1% higher than 1% but 100% higher. This means 1% is not 1% less than 2% but 50% less. Edit: changed 200% to 100%, sorry about that.

@masteroba4388 6 лет назад

no lt's 100% higher then 1%. cuz (1% is 100% of 1%) and (2% is 200% of 1%) so (200%-100% = 100%.)

@ChristianMartinez-it6sj 6 лет назад

John Apawan I hope you know that 200% is the same thing as 100%

@youtubehandlesareridiculous 6 лет назад

2% is 200% of 1%. But it is 100% greater than 1%.

@zapador 6 лет назад

Truth. This guy has no clue how to do math. I don't understand how there's 29K upvotes and 4K downvotes... Should clearly be the other way around as this is about as flawed as it can get. If he said that 1% to 2% is a change of 1 percentage point he would be right, but he doesn't say that. How does the solids suddenly change from 1% to 2%? No explanation for that is given o.O Clearly if 99% (99 kg) is water and 1% (1 kg) is solids then if 1% of the water evaporates that leaves 99 - (99 * 0.01) = 98.01 kg water and the same 1 kg solids as before, a total of 99.01 kg is left after one night. So the composition is now 1 / 99.01 = 1.0099% solids and 98.01 / 99.01 = 98.9900% water (both results rounded to 4 decimals).

@ryanmclaughlin9041 6 лет назад

John Apawan I'm gonna just pretend I understood that

@shuriken188 6 лет назад

I think the way you worded it was unclear. You said pretty much "what if it loses 1% of its water?" 1% of its 99 grams of water is roughly 1 gram of water. What I think would have been more accurate is: "what if its ratio of water to solid material went down by 1%?" Anyway, pretty cool paradox.

@duramax78 6 лет назад

This is exactly why it made no sense the way he said it, thank you.

@leilazacharias9730 6 лет назад

who said it was 99 grams of water in the first place? it was 99% water and 1% solid but the 1% solid might weigh way less than 1 gram and therefore 99% water could weigh 99.5 grams for example

@shuriken188 6 лет назад

I believe he was saying that the potato was 100 grams and 1% of that weight was solid matter

@leilazacharias9730 6 лет назад

J. Villeneuve please just completely disregard my comment, i don‘t know what type of extrinsic logic i made use of, must have been on drugs but my brain is back now

@blazingfire7517 6 лет назад

You just don't understand the word "percent"?

@mytech6779 Год назад

Would have been so much easier to demonstrate if you just swap a second red potato for a silver then divide the pile. Doesn't even seem like a paradox at that point.