Julia Collins is Jeopardy's Winningest Female

https://alum.mit.edu/pages/sliceofmit/2014/05/19/mit-alumna-breaks-jeopardy-records/

by nmorell • 12 years ago

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ozh• 12 years ago

Typical article that makes me shake my head thinking "why on earth is this paper highlighting female vs male".

I presume because it's an MIT alumna and without separating male/female it doesn't sound as impressive. She's won 10 games thus far, compared to Ken Jennings who won 74 straight. It's all about the presentation in most articles.

leeoniya• 12 years ago

Ken Jennings is a major outlier though, even among men [1].

[1] http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/17/4121297/julia-collins-...

VeejayRampay• 12 years ago

DISCLAIMER: I am a first-world white man, not a gender-equality theoretician. Furthermore, the following is not even my opinion, just speculation.

It's also possible that the article is a way to put female success in an apparently (if the list of best all-time performers is any indication) male-dominated "field" under the spotlight, which can be a way to motivate other female contestants or young girls to appropriate those types of competitions (or any other remotely related field).

I'm not even sure they do need that in the first place, but it's always a process of chicken and egg where seeing someone you can more easily relate to succeed in some domain makes you more likely to realize that there's no reason you couldn't have a stab at it yourself.

So I don't know if that makes sense, but yeah, the female angle might be just a way to get the thing going.

iterationx• 12 years ago

Rewrite the title then. See how link baity you can make it without using the word "winning-est"

Julia Collins is Jeopardy's Winningest Female

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