"All point questions are about the state of the world midnight on 1/1/2024, and all duration questions about the period 1/1/2023 - 1/1/2024, unless otherwise specified."
Presumably these should say 2025, 2024, and 2025, respectively? (Otherwise, I can get a pretty good score...)
Thank you - corrected! I spotted a couple of other aberrant 2023s too.
Thank you also for the feedback on 'more than 1 seat'. I tried a lot harder this year to not make confusingly worded questions, with too many 'nots' and similar, so I'm keen to iron out any more ambiguities.
In this case I did mean it literally, so I have changed the question to say '2 or more seats'. As this literally means the same as 'more than 1 seat' I don't feel bad about the edit and hopefully it will be clearer to anyone else taking it.
Most popular in 2024, or all-time? In their first N days, or ever? By number of views, or total hours viewed? Worldwide, or in the UK, or in the English-speaking world overall? Combining multiple seasons of a single show into one, or not? What about spinoffs - do they get added to the parent show's total, or counted separately?
Sorry to sound so pedantic, but I have no idea what the most popular shows on Netflix are, so I went Googling, and I'm seeing lots of different tables (including multiple ones on Netflix's own site) that vary wildly according to all these metrics, and I don't know which one you have in mind.
So, it turns out this is a badly framed question (apologies - an error on my part) but enough people have now entered that it doesn't seem fair to add more information.
Answer assuming I will do my best to score it fairly (which could include disregarding the question if I can't find a way to do that).
Have entered! When you do the calculations, would be interested to compute "score for specific person, excluding questions they didn't answer". I missed a good dozen, just as I didn't have enough knowledge (nor the time to research) to answer, but on the politics ones I'm pretty confident
"All point questions are about the state of the world midnight on 1/1/2024, and all duration questions about the period 1/1/2023 - 1/1/2024, unless otherwise specified."
Presumably these should say 2025, 2024, and 2025, respectively? (Otherwise, I can get a pretty good score...)
Thank you - corrected! I spotted a couple of other aberrant 2023s too.
Thank you also for the feedback on 'more than 1 seat'. I tried a lot harder this year to not make confusingly worded questions, with too many 'nots' and similar, so I'm keen to iron out any more ambiguities.
In this case I did mean it literally, so I have changed the question to say '2 or more seats'. As this literally means the same as 'more than 1 seat' I don't feel bad about the edit and hopefully it will be clearer to anyone else taking it.
Also, not a huge deal, but I'm wondering if "more than 1 seat" is meant literally or if it's supposed to be "at least 1 seat".
Can you clarify the Netflix one?
Most popular in 2024, or all-time? In their first N days, or ever? By number of views, or total hours viewed? Worldwide, or in the UK, or in the English-speaking world overall? Combining multiple seasons of a single show into one, or not? What about spinoffs - do they get added to the parent show's total, or counted separately?
Sorry to sound so pedantic, but I have no idea what the most popular shows on Netflix are, so I went Googling, and I'm seeing lots of different tables (including multiple ones on Netflix's own site) that vary wildly according to all these metrics, and I don't know which one you have in mind.
If I Google "most watched Netflix series", the first hit (https://www.netflix.com/tudum/top10/most-popular/tv) says Wednesday, the second (UK, https://www.netflix.com/tudum/top10/united-kingdom/tv) says Fool Me Once, the third (Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-watched_Netflix_original_programming) says Squid Game, the fourth says Wednesday, the fifth (IMDb, https://www.imdb.com/list/ls049223775/) says Stranger Things, the sixth (Bloomberg, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-12-13/what-are-the-most-popular-shows-on-netflix) says The Night Agent...
So, it turns out this is a badly framed question (apologies - an error on my part) but enough people have now entered that it doesn't seem fair to add more information.
Answer assuming I will do my best to score it fairly (which could include disregarding the question if I can't find a way to do that).
Have entered! When you do the calculations, would be interested to compute "score for specific person, excluding questions they didn't answer". I missed a good dozen, just as I didn't have enough knowledge (nor the time to research) to answer, but on the politics ones I'm pretty confident
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Happy to run that calculation for you next January if you remind me at the time. :-)