Except the OP makes no mention of previously displayed NFL knowledge. Simply that he was lucky a girl would have to answer a football question.
Is that a statement that you really think is sexist though? Men know more about football than women (on the average) is about the most uncontroversial comment about the sexes you can make. And again, the champ previously showed extensive football knowledge.
Men on average know more than women about football. I don’t find that bothersome.
“That specific person isn’t going to know much about football because she’s a woman” is bothersome. Especially when “that specific person” is a Jeopardy contestant who likely has gone out of her way to learn all kinds of things, even if she isn’t particularly interested in them.
Her answer was “CI”. That’s pretty much proof that she either A) knew the answer and choked or B) doesn’t know much about football.
Reminds me a little of Martini in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. A little.
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Hell, I don’t know dick about football and I’ve passed the online Jeopardy! test twice, did the in person auditions, and been in the contestant pool for years now. I am also a female.
And that has what to do with being female? I’m not contesting she didn’t know it. I’m contesting that she didn’t know it because she is female.
Any more than he knew it because he has testicles.
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**Thanks for the information! **When I googled it, I got mainly Letterman Late Show websites.
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I’m sorry I didn’t delineate in detail a man who seems to know quite a bit about everything including sports (been studying for 16 years to get on the show and has one of the longest win streaks) versus a woman whose strength seemed to lie in standard Jeopardy categories such as literature and seemed as though she hardly ever watched an NFL game. **I’ll venture that the audience for NFL football is mostly male. ** It’s not really a standard Jeopardy category like Shakespeare, so anyone, male or female, would be less likely to brush up on it before going on the show.
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I was just pointing out that his win streak could have ended at one or two earlier junctures, that show with the NFL FJ question being the main one since she had the lead going into Final Jeopardy. In sum, I credited a female for being the biggest threat to his win streak as of yet.
My quibble with the OP is the assumption that the champ’s opponent was at a disadvantage because of the NFL question based purely on her gender. I know some people like feeling offended when someone suggests generalizations are foolish, but I think it’s a bit of an over-reaction in this case.
While men might watch more sports than women and participate in more sports than women (something I cannot confirm, living in the shadow of the Green Bay Packers), making the assumption that any particular woman knows less about sports just because she is a woman is, IMO, ignorant. I’d put my SIL’s NFL knowledge up against any man’s. She is a high-ranking fantasy football league member, but you’d never know that just to look at her.
Come on. It’s favoring the odds. No more, no less. And the odds are that a man will know much more about football than a woman.
There was some football category on there last week or so that was completely run by the female contestant. On Jeopardy, you can’t make assumptions about what people will know based on their gender. These aren’t average picked off the street people.
It’s amazing how little the odds matter in individual competition, especially when that competition involves knowledge and memory. Of course, things may work differently in your circle.
Regarding the OP, I think the statement, “He was lucky to get a [sic] ‘NFL’ question” would have described the event adequately without the mention of the opponent’s gender, since it was apparently the champion’s encyclopedic knowledge of the NFL that worked in his favor.
Now, [/hijack]. I’m enjoying this Jeopardy contestant, but I don’t see him having Ken Jennings potential. He does look like he’s having a lot of fun.
After giving kudos to a woman for being his main threat, I’m being called gender-biased. How ironic. It’s a fact that men watch NFL football more than women, and many women watch it just to spend time with their significant other. Fact: women who watch NFL football by themself are relatively few. I never said anything about sports participation.
I have no doubt your SIL could beat me soundly at any NFL football trivia contest. I never inferred that there aren’t many women out there that know NFL football, but the female contestant in question didn’t seem to be one of them, and on average, men watch more NFL football, not that that’s necessarily a good thing. I know little NFL trivia myself because I’m not much of a fan, and don’t really care about it. In my book, knowing your NFL trivia isn’t something to be terribly proud of.
The other guy in that Final Jeopardy did not know the NFL question either, so I don’t see why being female had anything to do with it. He’s lucky it was a category he had knowledge of, not that he was against a woman.
That’s fine, if you had knowledge that he was good with football questions and she wasn’t then he was indeed lucky that he a football question while facing her. But you didn’t put that in your post and just said it was lucky because she’s female.
Which, when dealing with a specific individual is not particularly relevant. Especially when that specific individual is almost by definition not a random representation of the general population when it comes to knowing stuff.
And, if you were giving kudos to her for being his main threat, because she’s a woman, then that really isn’t any better. (Not that I think you were doing this since you offered her no kudos at all until post #28.)
I offered kudos by way of mention in the original post, but not because she’s a woman. It was a two-sentence post.
Let’s take another example. Contestant A lives in the state of California and contestant B lives in Europe. The FJ question regards the Golden State Warriors. Playing the odds, I’d favor contestant A over contestant B for this question. However, I wouldn’t look on it as anything more than playing the odds.
Again, your not comparing the right thing. There is a difference between assessing the odds that a random person will not know a topic and assigning the reason that a specific person did not know the answer.
Random Man may have a 60% chance of answering a question compared to 40% chance for Random Woman. But when Specific Woman doesn’t know the answer it doesn’t follow that it is because she is part of the Random Woman population. For all we know she has season tickets to the Eagles and just didn’t come up with the answer in time (I barely did and I’m a football watcher who grew up in Washington where the Seahawks are the only team within a thousand miles).
In case you may have missed it, in Dopers on Jeopardy! THE List at this post and this post we learn that
And since Jason won last night it figures that Jason and Dave (Kingspades) were on the same show! I suspect Dave won’t be able to divulge which (if either) of them wins tonight, but it’s worth noting that “you saw it here.”
A slight hijack, but didn’t want to start a new thread.
Is Alex really that smart and knows all the answers?
He just seems so smug when he states, “No, it was, of course, Zyrtogluus the 3rd who invented rock, paper, scissors in 12 BC.” As if we are all idiots for not know that, geez…
Nobody called you gender-biased. I pointed out a generalization in your OP that, IMO, erroneously equated being female with being less capable of answering a question about the NFL. Your OP mentioned nothing about her being his “main threat.” Your OP also mentioned nothing about the champ’s expertise in NFL trivia. Your OP mentioned nothing about whether the female contestant seemed to be knowledgeable about football. All you mentioned about her in your OP was that she was female. I think what obfusciatrist and I have been trying to point out is that the champion’s success in that category had nothing to do with his opponent’s gender. Really, it isn’t a value judgment about you. Just think of it as being in line with the stated mission of this board.
And now, on to the important Jeopardy-related topic: Good luck, Kingspades!