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"Random Draw?"
Colonel Zoidberg 3370 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Car Show Celebrity"
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11-13-10, 02:14 PM (EST)
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1. "RE: Random Draw?" |
I'm racking my brain with this one - precalculus was years ago, so combination sets with multiple groups seem a little hard to manage.Let's establish this - if ranking all the players 1-11, there are exactly 39,916,800 ways to arrange them. However, we're not arranging them 1-11 - we're splitting them into two five-person groups with one left over. There are exactly six ways to arrange the teams so they are men vs. women - all five women on one team, and five of the six men on the other, and the only variable is which man sits out. So we have our numerator - six. To get the denominator, it's a little harder. So I Googled "combination calculator" with this thought in mind - we can simplify this equation by doing the following: We pick ONE of the teams, understanding that, with every combination we pick for that team, say, the yellow team, we can fill the blue team with six possible combinations. This allows us to simplify a bit - since we established that there are six possibilities for a men vs. women contest, and we have also established that, with each yellow team drawn, we have six possible blue teams, these sixes cancel each other out. Therefore, the equation is simple: How many five-player combinations can we get out of an 11-player group? According to www.calculatorsoup.com, the answer to that question is 462. Therefore, the probability of a men vs. women contest is 1/462, or approximately a 0.216% chance. That's not to say that Burnett arranged this or that Jiffy did - the arrangement that happened is a coincidence, but it's just as likely as the other 2,771 combinations of teams that could have occurred. Also, a men vs. women split was interesting for about four seconds. The challenge relied a lot on physical strength, and at least in this cast, the men were physically more powerful than the women. Right away, one could tell the men would win. So I wouldn't call it producer manipulation just yet.
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Survivorerist 4103 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Jerry Springer Show Guest"
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11-15-10, 05:23 PM (EST)
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8. "RE: Random Draw?" |
LAST EDITED ON 11-15-10 AT 05:27 PM (EST)I have the probability of all male/all female teams as double what you posted, that is 1/231. At the risk of turning this into a math thresd... You are correct in saying that there are 462 ways to choose a 5 member yellow team from 11 players. However, there are two situations in which the teams can break along gender lines: a) the yellow team is all men AND a man sits out. Now there are six yellow teams that are all men (i.e. one where each man is not on the yellow team). Hence, the probability that the yellow team is all men is 6/462. However, no matter which five men are on the yellow team, the remaining man must be chosen to sit out when the blue team is chosen. The probability of this is 1/6. Hence the probability of (a) is (6/462)x(1/6)=1/462. I feel that this is the idea that you had in your argument Zoidberg. b) The yellow team is all women. Since there are five women, there is exactly one way in which this condition is satisfied, making the probability of (b) 1/462. Since (a) and (b) cannot be simultaneously satisfied by the choice of any one 5 player yellow team, the resulting probability of a men vs. women contest is 1/462 + 1/462 = 2/462 or 1/231. Feel free to check this argument. edited to fix formatting and phrasing
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michel 6689 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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11-16-10, 07:06 PM (EST)
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11. "RE: Random Draw?" |
Yep, you are right: 1/231 takes into acount a man or a woman going first. If you do the average of 252 and 210, you get 231. So our results are the same.
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Colonel Zoidberg 3370 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Car Show Celebrity"
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11-17-10, 08:45 AM (EST)
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17. "RE: Random Draw?" |
D'oh. Forgot to take into account that the men could be wearing yellow as well. That makes perfect sense.
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udg 2590 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Survivor-themed Cruise Spokesperson"
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11-13-10, 08:54 PM (EST)
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3. "Two in Eleven = 18% chance" |
There are only eleven possible M/F combinations. Six if a man sits out and 5 if a woman does.Man sits out: 5 men vs 5 woman * 4m/1w vs 1m/4w ** 3m/2w vs 2m/3w *** 2m/3w vs 3m/2w *** 1m/4w vs 4m/1w ** 5 women vs 5 men * Woman sits out: 5 men vs 1m/4w ‡ 4m/1w vs 2m/3w ‡‡ 3m/2w vs 3m/2w 2m/3w vs 4m/1w ‡‡ 1m/4w vs 5 men ‡ * Same team split, just different colors. ** Same team split, just different colors. *** Same team split, just different colors. ‡ Same team split, just different colors. ‡‡ Same team split, just different colors. There are two possible ways to get an even 5/5 split (in bold) out of a possible 11 different combinations of men vs women. Sure, it gets more complicated if you go into what order they pick or which individual is on which team, but if you're looking purely at the possible combinations of gender splitting, there's an 18.2% chance of getting all men on one team versus all women on the other. Not exactly outrageous odds.
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michel 6689 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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11-16-10, 07:13 PM (EST)
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12. "RE: Random Draw?" |
Nice to see you in Bashers, OFG! >The problem with going by odds >is that the players drew >rocks from a bag one >by one and they felt >it was an honest draw, >even the losers.
They could have been tricked. It wouldn't have been hard. >Jeff didn't want >the teams so uneven.
I don't believe much of what he says. >The truth is that if they >want to play men against >women on a challenge that >they can do it by >simply saying that's how it's >being played. Not if their reason behind it is rigging the game for one player! >The odds that Burnett was on >location at that point are >long I think. I think >he's delegated to Probst to >run the on site day >in day out.
I'm sure Burnett only cares about his wallet and doesn't give a crap about the show itself. I use his name as a shortcut for production. It's easier to have a face to bash.
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RollDdice 5381 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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11-16-10, 11:57 PM (EST)
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13. "RE: Random Draw?" |
I'm sure Burnett only cares about his wallet and doesn't give a crap about the show itself. I use his name as a shortcut for production. It's easier to have a face to bash. Ouch. That hurt. I have feelings, you know. *runs off to pout in luxury cabana*
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dabo 20247 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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11-17-10, 11:03 AM (EST)
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18. "RE: Random Draw?" |
Those contracts wouldn't be valid in regard to unfair manipulations of the game. The FCC wouldn't look at it in terms of manipulating for someone's prospects to ultimately win the game, just in respect to their chances of winning or losing in that challenge.
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michel 6689 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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11-17-10, 06:22 PM (EST)
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19. "RE: Random Draw?" |
And Stacy managed to get an out of court settlement for just that. No doubt Burnett's attorneys made it tougher after that. What will always make it tough are the questions of proof, the question of jurisdiction, (the events happening outside the USA) and there's also the question of being asked back. Why do you think that Ozzy, Penner, Parvati and Candice were asked back in Micronesia? Good characters for sure but so were many others. However, those are the four that were hurt by the help Yul received. Again, no proof but doubts. Eliza admitted that there were things that happened before the Leann vote that she wasn't allowed to talk about. We were asking her why she didn't talk to Ami and Leann after Chris told her about Scout and Twila's plan. She skated around by saying she was afraid Ami would confront Scout, that it could turn against her and then she added that she wasn't allowed to talk about what happened after talking to Chris and before the TC. Most of us guessed that, as soon as they heard that a flip was underway, the producers ordered everyone to be quiet and rushed them to TC (the same happened in Samoa for Erik's key boot). That would have been manipulation that would have helped Chris tremendously. Eliza was a law student (she passed her bar last year btw) but she prefered not to talk about it and got invited back as a Favorite...and Ami too, would you look at that!!!!! And what about Amanda's comment last season that something happened that soured her about the game? I seriously doubt that she meant she was upset that her friend Parvati backstabbed her. Many speculated that Amanda became aware of the help Parvati and Russell received. There's not much real about reality TV.
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iltarion 1328 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Beef Jerky Spokesperson"
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11-18-10, 01:48 AM (EST)
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20. "RE: Random Draw?" |
I agree about reality TV not being so real, but otherwise, what you have there is a whole lot of circumstantial fluff leading to conjecture. I see no evidence concrete enough to convince me of anything. Laura talking on the radio about Russell being helped wasn't even convincing, and everyone knows how much I respect Laura. The Aitu4 might have been helped by a couple well-timed twists, but I doubt Yul was being specifically helped. The jury could very well have still voted for Ozzy, which they almost did. The Aitu4 were a great underdog story; so I can see production helping them a little. >
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