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Comment Re:When do they get the question? (Score 2) 220

Also, unless I'm mistaken, one doesn't have to wait for the entire question to be read. You can jump in early if you think you know the answer.

You're mistaken. The clickers to ring in are shut off until Trebek is finished reading out loud. (Jeopardy was probably the first quiz game to do it this way.)

Comment Re:Good for population control (Score 2) 172

You're basically right, but you're reading the numbers wrong. Those aren't birth rate numbers you linked: it's a ratio of births to deaths. Hence why the USA at 0.97 is considered falling. But the 2.15 figure means over twice as many births as deaths. Maintaining a population requires a birth rate of around 2.1, not 2.5; either way, the industrialized world is on the wrong side of the number.

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