All cities above 100k population were included, then any with less than 200k in Florida, Texas or California were removed, thus preventing a bias to these states. Furthermore if two remaining cities had the same name they were removed, except where one city was much larger than the other, then only the smaller was removed.
I think you should make it so two or more cities with the same name would show up and accept both states (Columbia would accept both MO and SC, Springfield would accept multiple states, etc.)
There are 202 possible answers, and with the methodology above that includes 23 from California. So on average you should only get 2 California per round. However since this is randomised, and lots of people are taking the quiz, the chance that somebody got slightly more California's than someone else is to be expected.
Think of it like this; When rolling a dice 100 times, you would not expect to see an alternating Head-Tails pattern. In fact, with 100 you're much more likely to see strings of 4 or 5 heads or tails in a row then to get a consistent HTHTHTHT. That's just the nature of randomness.
Moral of the story, 6/20 being California is totally within expectation, given the number of people taking the quiz.
I agree that the methodology should be included in the description. Cities like Augusta, while the larger one is in Georgia, it is the capital of Maine.
Also, I don't know how many give-away answers are in there, but I got two in mine, Oklahoma City and New York City. Those might be the only ones and I just got both.
I'm guessing the red herring is Kansas City, MO? That's a real tough one to distinguish because the Kansas City, KS is right next to it, and really they function almost as one city, though MO is bigger.
I just want to add my congratulations and appreciation to Stewart (quiz maker) for creating this and similar quizzes recently. I really like the randomiser and large pool of answers, which mean you need a greater depth of knowledge hence a better learning experience and overall better quiz (in my opinion). Keep up the good work.
Meanwhile I get 3 in the same state which would be easy if it wasn’t...... North Carolina which I know literally 2 cities in and only one was there..... my luck just isn’t always great
Well the coding for Randomised quizzes is universal. So QM would have to write special code just for this quiz and change the quiz type to distinguish it from normal Randomised quizzes. However, I don't think this would ever happen as I see no need to prevent the same state appearing twice.
I had Kent which is in Washington (Right answer) but is also in Ohio (wrong answer). Also I had Athens which is not only in Georgia (Right answer) but is also in the states Ohio, Tennessee and Alabama (wrong answers)
All cities above 100k population were included, then any with less than 200k in Florida, Texas or California were removed, thus preventing a bias to these states. Furthermore if two remaining cities had the same name they were removed, except where one city was much larger than the other, then only the smaller was removed.
Think of it like this; When rolling a dice 100 times, you would not expect to see an alternating Head-Tails pattern. In fact, with 100 you're much more likely to see strings of 4 or 5 heads or tails in a row then to get a consistent HTHTHTHT. That's just the nature of randomness.
Moral of the story, 6/20 being California is totally within expectation, given the number of people taking the quiz.
Also, I don't know how many give-away answers are in there, but I got two in mine, Oklahoma City and New York City. Those might be the only ones and I just got both.
Also there are only 6 giveaways (3 containing part of the state rather than City) but also 1 red herring.