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I might be overly anal, but how is this a paradox at all?
by jhoechtl 4y ago
I might be overly anal, but how is this a paradox at all?
- bananabiscuit 4y agoMost people would assume increasing capacity would always mean greater throughput.
- maest 4y agoThere are multiple types of paradoxes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox#Quine's_classification https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox#Quine's_classificati... This would fall under "veridical paradox" - true statement which most people would expect to be false.
- kazinator 4y agoIt's a paradox because you would think that how can giving drivers more choice worsen their travel times? If that diagram was electrical resistors, then adding that middle path across the bridge would never increase the resistance from A to B and therefore reduce the current. At worst, the added resistor will do nothing (because the nodes of the Wheatstone bridge are at the same potential). If any current flows at all across the new connection, it improves the flow.