What is a Paradox. A paradox is a statement that contradicts itself or a situation which seems to defy logic. That's a simple definition of paradox. Often premises can be proven false which rectifies the contradiction. Sometimes they are just play on words, however, some paradoxes still don't have universally accepted resolutions. On this page you can find several good paradox examples to tease your mind.
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Upon closer examination, the alarming correlation between higher IT spending and lower productivity at the level of the entire US economy is not compelling because so many other factors affect productivity. Until recently, computers were not a major share of the economy.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.
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It is common to focus only on the mismanagement explanation, but a closer examination of the principal studies and the underlying data underscores the possibility that measurement difficulties may account for the lion's share of the gap between our expectations for the technology and its apparent performance.
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The closer one examines the data behind the studies of IT performance, the more it looks like mismeasurement is at the core of the productivity paradox. Rapid innovation has made IT intensive industries particularly susceptible to the problems associated with measuring quality changes and valuing new products.
http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/CCSWP130/CCSWP130.html
An example is This statement is false, a form of the liar paradox. The statement is referring to itself. Another example of self-reference is the question of whether the barber shaves himself in the barber paradox.
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4) Mismanagement of information and technology. The first two explanations point to shortcomings in research, not practice, as the root of the productivity paradox. It is possible that the benefits of IT investment are quite large, but that a proper index of its true impact has yet to be analyzed.
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He concludes that there is no relation between spending for computers, profits and productivity (Strassmann, 1990). Roach's widely cited research on white collar productivity, discussed above, focused principally on IT's dismal performance in the service sector (1991; 1989a).
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1 Catch-22 A situation in which someone is in need of something that can only be had by not being in need of it. 2  Drinker paradox In any pub there is a customer of whom it is true to say: if that customer drinks, everybody in the pub drinks. 3  Paradox of entailment Inconsistent premises always make an argument valid.
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This is a list of paradoxes, grouped thematically. The grouping is approximate, as paradoxes may fit into more than one category. Because of varying definitions of the term paradox, some of the following are not considered to be paradoxes by everyone. This list collects only scenarios that have been called a paradox by at least one source and have their own article.
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explain what a paradox is
A paradox is a statement that contradicts itself or a situation which seems to defy logic.