{"id":3416,"date":"2021-09-28T19:06:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2021-10-14T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:09:49","slug":"the-paradox-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2021\/09\/28\/the-paradox-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paradox of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\nA paradox is a seeming contradiction. But a contradiction is necessarily false. So, the task is to explain the appearance of a contradiction. In a previous blog, I made references to an article by Quine which dealt with paradoxes: <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/24\/paradox-a-type-of-bullshit\/\">\u201cParadox\u201d \u2014 a type of bullshit<\/a>\n<p><\/p><p>\nWhile glancing at the index of Karl Popper&#8217;s <i>The Open Society and Its Enemies<\/i>, vol.2, under the heading &#8220;paradoxes,&#8221; there are a few that have become famous. There are the paradox of freedom, the paradox of tolerance, the paradox of democracy, and others.\n<\/p><p>\nIn this blog, I want to alert you to a paradox which I previously have not heard of. When listening to its description, it resonated with me as absolutely true. This is the paradox of choice, presented by Barry Schwartz. Here is the video which enlightened me.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VO6XEQIsCoM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paradox is a seeming contradiction. But a contradiction is necessarily false. So, the task is to explain the appearance of a contradiction. In a previous blog, I made references to an article by Quine which dealt with paradoxes: \u201cParadox\u201d \u2014 a type of bullshit While glancing at the index of Karl Popper&#8217;s The Open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2021\/09\/28\/the-paradox-of-choice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Paradox of Choice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}