Game / activity
how dangerous is it?
task: compare each named profession's danger with an assigned profession assignments: Brad, police officer, Ryan, firefighter choices: more dangerous, less dangerous
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Brad(ley)
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Prompt
To start the game off, one of you has to pick firefighter and one of you has to pick cop.
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firefighter
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police officer
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Context
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- Rules: There is no city.
- Answer qualification: suddenDeath: conditional on a tie alternativeProposal: whoever chose firefighter was the winner enacted: False
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Context
Can I give my my winning speech?
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- Scores: Ryan -3 Brad -1
- Ending or payoff: And I hope to win next time.
Preserved source round labels (9)
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Follow the round structure (9)
farmers
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Prompt
Brad, would you say being a police officer more or less dangerous than being a farmer?
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- Prompt item: farmers
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer more dangerous than farmer
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -1
- Answer qualification: a firefighter is, I mean, goddammit, a police officer's job
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter less dangerous than farmer
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
- Score effect points: 1
- Answer qualification: It's the machinery that they use to work the land.
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than farmer firefighter less dangerous than farmer
landscaping supervisors
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Prompt
landscaping supervisors
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer less dangerous than landscaping supervisor
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
- Score effect points: 1
- Answer qualification: They're standing in the road and they get hit as they're supervising the landscaping job.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter more dangerous than landscaping supervisor
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
- Score effect points: 1
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than landscaping supervisor firefighter more dangerous than landscaping supervisor
Crossing guard.
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Prompt
Crossing guard.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter more dangerous than crossing guard
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer more dangerous than crossing guard
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than crossing guard firefighter more dangerous than crossing guard
- Answer qualification: discourseRole: restatement of submitted answers before adjudication clauses: Both jobs are more dangerous than a crossing guard.
garbage collectors
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Prompt
garbage collectors
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police officer less dangerous than garbage collector
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- Claim: discourseRole: volunteered comparison beyond assigned police baseline comparison: garbage collector, more dangerous than, firefighter
- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter more dangerous than garbage collector
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Answer qualification: Wait, that's what I said.
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than garbage collector firefighter less dangerous than garbage collector
- Adjudication: retractedReading: Firefighting is more dangerous than... explanation: I was reading your answer, not the, the right answer. finalComparison: firefighter, less dangerous than, garbage collector
Mining machine operators.
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Prompt
Mining machine operators.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer less dangerous than mining machine operator
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter less dangerous than mining machine operator
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- Answer qualification: I don't know how broad mining machines are.
- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer more dangerous than mining machine operator firefighter more dangerous than mining machine operator
Aircraft pilots
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Prompt
Aircraft pilots
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter more dangerous than aircraft pilot
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -1
- Answer qualification: initialRationale: commercial air safety postResultReflection: I wasn't thinking of helicopters. metricQuestion: Is that flight hours we're talking about?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer less dangerous than aircraft pilot
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
- Score effect points: 1
- Answer qualification: I mean, than a, than a police officer.
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than aircraft pilot firefighter less dangerous than aircraft pilot
- Adjudication method: reportedFatalInjuryRate: 53 denominator: hundred thousand workers reportedListPosition: 2
- Result qualification: I can't see it anymore.
highway maintenance
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Prompt
highway maintenance
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer less dangerous than highway maintenance
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter less dangerous than highway maintenance
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Answer qualification: My father-in-law does highway.
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than highway maintenance firefighter more dangerous than highway maintenance
Crane operators.
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Prompt
Crane operators.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer more dangerous than crane operator
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- Answer qualification: retractedRationale: the only damage we're going to do is to themselves. replacementRationale: crane operator damage, more likely to facilities or buildings, than themselves or people
- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -1
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter less dangerous than crane operator
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -1
- Answer qualification: To take a commanding tie.
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than crane operator firefighter more dangerous than crane operator
Delivery drivers.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Prompt
Delivery drivers.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer more dangerous than delivery driver
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -1
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter more dangerous than delivery driver
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- Claim: discourseRole: participant prediction before adjudication clauses: Brad is wrong, Ryan is right, the score becomes a tie
- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -1
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than delivery driver firefighter less dangerous than delivery driver
- Answer qualification: I do know that the data they were pulling seemed to be from 2019.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Title: how dangerous is it?
- Scoring mechanism: correct: 1 incorrect: -1
- Adjudication method: reportedSource: ishn.com workingRecord: spreadsheet liveArticleAccess: unavailable publicationDate: not known by facilitator dataYearQualification: seemed to be from 2019
- Result qualification: I'm not sure how valid it is, but this is what we're going with.
- Scores: stage: after farmers Brad: -1 Ryan: 1 stage: before crane operators Brad: 1 Ryan: -1 stage: final Brad: -1 Ryan: -3
- Winner statement: And our winner for today.
- Ending or payoff: winnerSpeech: target: game wrap announcedPrize: target: prediction prompt