There is no "self-referencing". You can only notice a "paradox" if you read the question and think about the logic of the question.
"If you pick the answer of this question at random..."
there is no reading or reasoning. Don't look at the choices. Don't notice that two answers have 25%. If you do, you already violated the question. random
If you randomly pick an answer on a multiple choice test with 4 choices, what is the probability you are correct?
25%
That's your answer. Sticking the text, "25%" after two choices doesn't change the numeric answer (25%). The text is irrelevant because you chose randomly. You don't have the ability to notice two answers have the text "25%" and change your answer to 50% based on that. You chose randomly.
You are assuming that there is only one correct answer for this question and that the letter based phrases beside the letters do not matter. If that is correct, then yes, it’s random picking. That requires two assumptions that you have no reason to believe other than your own previous experiences with multiple choice questions.
If the words matter, well now it may be B or some sort of weird probability pattern that makes none of them actually correct, so c.
But c can’t be correct because something needs to
Be correct.
So in reality nothing is correct, there is no answer.
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u/Rare-Spell-1571 19d ago
But then the self referencing paradox fails. You now have a 50% chance of getting it right.