A status paradox can be one of several paradoxes involving "status", in the meaning of either medical state or social status. This type of status paradox...

This list includes well known paradoxes, grouped thematically. The grouping is approximate, as paradoxes may fit into more than one category. This list...

The Abilene paradox is a collective fallacy, in which a group of people collectively decide on a course of action that is counter to the preferences of...

socioeconomic status is almost universally associated with worse population health and higher death rates everywhere in the world. The paradox usually refers...

The raven paradox, also known as Hempel's paradox, Hempel's ravens or, rarely, the paradox of indoor ornithology, is a paradox arising from the question...

logical paradoxes, including, though not limited to, the liar paradox, the knower paradox, the unexpected hanging paradox, and the preface paradox. There...

The sorites paradox (/soʊˈraɪtiːz/), sometimes known as the paradox of the heap, is a paradox that results from vague predicates. A typical formulation...

an individual's job One-third hypothesis Petite bourgeoisie Status paradox#Status paradox of migration Upper middle class – Social class López & Weinstein...

leads to a paradox known as the Gibbs paradox, after Josiah Willard Gibbs, who proposed this thought experiment in 1874‒1875. The paradox allows for the...

In physics, the twin paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity involving twins, one of whom takes a space voyage at relativistic speeds and...

The region-beta paradox is the phenomenon that people can sometimes recover more quickly from more distressing experiences than from less distressing...

In economics and commerce, the Bertrand paradox — named after its creator, Joseph Bertrand — describes a situation in which two players (firms) reach...

The gender-equality paradox is the finding that various gender differences in personality and occupational choice are larger in more gender equal countries...

The no–no paradox is a distinctive paradox belonging to the family of the semantic paradoxes (like the Liar paradox). It derives its name from the fact...

The Israeli paradox was an apparently paradoxical epidemiological observation that Israeli Jews have a relatively high incidence of coronary heart disease...

Cabinet Entertainment, previously known as Paradox Entertainment, is a company dealing in intellectual properties and making motion pictures thereof....

obesity paradox is the finding in some studies of a lower mortality rate for overweight or obese people within certain subpopulations. The paradox has been...

The paradox of voting, also called Downs' paradox, is that for a rational and egoistic voter (Homo economicus), the costs of voting will normally exceed...

Time Variance Authority, including Mr. Tesseract, Mr. Ouroboros, and Mr. Paradox. Mobius appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) series Loki (2021–2023)...

A perceptual paradox illustrates the failure of a theoretical prediction. Theories of perception are supposed to help a researcher predict what will be...

In aquatic biology, the paradox of the plankton describes the situation in which a limited range of resources supports an unexpectedly wide range of plankton...

The Mexican paradox is the observation that Mexicans exhibit a surprisingly low incidence of low birth weight (especially foreign-born Mexican mothers)...

The sapient paradox is a question that can be formulated as "why there was such a long gap between emergence of genetically and anatomically modern humans...

Paradox Valley is a basin located in western Montrose County in the U.S. state of Colorado. The dry, sparsely populated valley is named after the apparently...

rise is to increase demand for it. This phenomenon is known as the Giffen paradox. Giffen goods are named after Scottish economist Sir Robert Giffen, to...

die by suicide more frequently. This discrepancy is known as the gender paradox in suicide. Globally, death by suicide occurred about 1.8 times more often...

In statistics, Lord's paradox raises the issue of when it is appropriate to control for baseline status. In three papers, Frederic M. Lord gave examples...

examination of tariffs within the Heckscher–Ohlin model. The paradox has roughly the same status as immiserizing growth and a transfer that makes the recipient...

Paradox Press was a division of DC Comics formed in 1993 after editor Mark Nevelow departed from Piranha Press. Under the initial editorship of Andrew...

Famous for being famous is a paradoxical term, often used pejoratively, for someone who attains celebrity status for no clearly identifiable reason—as...