A Model for Winning Survivor
https://victoriaritvo.com/blog/predicting-survivor/
28 pointsbyevakhoury•1日前•12 コメント
Ok... but no one picks a winner at random. How does this do against anyone who has watched the show and picks someone based on their knowledge of the game? Seems like a really complicated way of just barely doing better than a dartboard.
I don't get this. How are people "betting" on something that is "known information" for other people? What's the point? I get betting on stuff that no one can know, but who's taking "the other side" on these bets? Why would you put money into something knowing that there are people who already have the absolute answer?
The ideas in TFA are interesting, but it’s important to keep in mind that when we watch Survivor, we’re not watching something that happened in real time and then was simply compiled together. Survivor is edited after the fact, once the winners and all the arcs of contestants are known.
And don’t get me wrong! I love watching the show even knowing that in my mind. But a model built on the edited material is necessarily biased due to the format of the show itself.