So if the path to ground is not the path of least resistance, what does electricity do?
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“Electricity” takes every path to ground simultaneously in an amount inversely proportional to the resistance of that path, more or less. It doesn’t prioritize one path, or somehow seek out the path of least resistance. The POLR will take the majority of the current.
Take a circuit with two resistors in parallel. If the original statement was true, the larger resistor would experience no current flow. This is manifestly false.
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