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    The French paradox is an apparently paradoxical epidemiological observation that French people have a relatively low incidence of coronary heart disease...
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  • A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently...
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  • to the reverse outcome. The most famous of these paradoxes is known as the "French paradox": France enjoys a relatively low incidence of CHD despite a...
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  • This list includes well known paradoxes, grouped thematically. The grouping is approximate, as paradoxes may fit into more than one category. This list...
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    disease remains low in France. This phenomenon has been termed the French paradox, and is thought to occur from protective benefits of regularly consuming...
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  • The unexpected hanging paradox or surprise test paradox is a paradox about a person's expectations about the timing of a future event which they are told...
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  • The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set-theoretic geometry, which states the following: Given a solid ball in three-dimensional space, there exists...
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    The St. Petersburg paradox or St. Petersburg lottery is a paradox involving the game of flipping a coin where the expected payoff of the theoretical lottery...
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  • In social choice theory, a Condorcet paradox (or voting paradox) is a situation where majority rule behaves in a way that is self-contradictory. In such...
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  • Braess's paradox is the observation that adding one or more roads to a road network can slow down overall traffic flow through it. The paradox was first...
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  • Richard's paradox is a semantical antinomy of set theory and natural language first described by the French mathematician Jules Richard in 1905. The paradox is...
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  • Paradox Interactive AB is a video game publisher based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company started out as the video game division of Target Games and then...
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  • published and/or distributed by video game publisher Paradox Interactive. Video games portal Paradox Development Studio List of grand strategy video games...
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  • The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having had all of its original...
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  • The Berry paradox is a self-referential paradox arising from an expression like "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters" (a...
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    warning messages in several countries.: 341–2  The hypothesis of the French paradox assumes a low prevalence of heart disease due to the consumption of...
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    of fat consumption are found. A parallel phenomenon is known as the French paradox. By 2011, the Mediterranean diet was included by some authors as a fad...
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  • 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...
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  • In decision theory, the Ellsberg paradox (or Ellsberg's paradox) is a paradox in which people's decisions are inconsistent with subjective expected utility...
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    articles Alcohol and spaceflight Gateway drug effect Mood disorder Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease Self-medication Spins Town drunk French paradox Category...
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  • A paradoxical reaction (or paradoxical effect) is an effect of a chemical substance, such as a medical drug, that is opposite to what would usually be...
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  • In philosophy and logic, the classical liar paradox or liar's paradox or antinomy of the liar is the statement of a liar that they are lying: for instance...
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    brigades in France:: 32  France portal Food portal Cuisine of Quebec Acadian cuisine Cajun cuisine French Americans French Canadians French paradox Larousse...
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  • The Allais paradox is a choice problem designed by Maurice Allais (1953) to show an inconsistency of actual observed choices with the predictions of expected...
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    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...
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    Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2016. "A French paradox: multicultural celebrities are popular, but so is Le Pen". The Independent...
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  • subcategory has been called "malternative", as in Smirnoff Ice (US and French version). Marketing of such products in the United States has increased...
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  • The Australian paradox is an observation of diverging trends in sugar consumption and obesity rates in Australia. The term was first used in a 2011 study...
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