Talk:Will Rogers phenomenon

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Why is this considered a paradox? It seems mathematically obvious that moving a value from a set in which it is the lowest to a set in which it is the highest will raise the average of both sets. If you chop the left-hand side off one tree and nail it onto the right-hand side of another tree, then both will tend to fall over towards the right. 143.252.80.110 15:50, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't think there's anything paradoxical about it either, it's just common sense. But the same could be said of many other things people think of as paradoxes. -- Coffee2theorems | Talk 21:15, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I felt the same way. I know the joke of course (the local variant involves Limburg and the Netherlands) but I've no idea why this is an "apparant paradox". Wouter Lievens 09:04, 23 October 2006 (UTC)