Late on #TidyTuesday - Alone TV Series Survivalists
This might be a bold header (pun intended), but I love the story: women are badass competitors with incredible mental fortitude.
Thank you @danoehm for the cool data set!
@tanya_shapiro @danoehm I don't know what alone is specifically, but I can imagine.
Is it better to go on longer before winning?
While men definitely survive less, they appear to win and to do that earlier than the women who outlasts most men.
Is the average survival time a fair metric when you have people who leave earlier because they won?
Yep, for those who won we don't actually know how long they may have survived. Each season there is only 1 winner (except S4). The winners would need to survive ~2.3x longer than they did to balance the average days lasted for men and women. With that in mind I think this is a fair metric to compare genders more generally.
@rastinza @danoehm some background on the show:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_(TV_series)
My analysis pools contestants across all seasons. Typically each season has 10 individuals competing against each other. The person to last the longest wins. So winning is relative to how long the individuals lasts (days survived) vs the other competitors from their respective season.