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I'm not sure I understand your point. All of the contestants "see" the answer at the same time, and none of them are allowed to buzz in until the magic light go
by lylejohnson 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. All of the contestants "see" the answer at the same time, and none of them are allowed to buzz in until the magic light goes on.
- derwiki 16y agoBut if the question takes 20 seconds to read, Watson has 20 of his seconds to narrow down his confidence to a particular answer. If he only had 10 seconds, his calculations might not have gone far enough to bubble the correct answer on top. It would be interesting to see a chart of confidence of answers vs time for Watson..
- dfan 16y agoBut the same is true for the human contestants; at this level especially, I'm sure that they scan the whole question in a second and then have the rest of the spoken time (which, even for long questions, is nowhere near 20 seconds - probably more like 4) to think about it.