{"id":28,"date":"2004-12-07T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/blog\/2004\/12\/07\/media-television-the-biggest-loser-who-cant-count\/"},"modified":"2004-12-07T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T21:04:00","slug":"media-television-the-biggest-loser-who-cant-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/2004\/12\/07\/media-television-the-biggest-loser-who-cant-count\/","title":{"rendered":"[Media &#8211; Television] The Biggest Loser Who Can&#8217;t Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I hate reality television because it hogs resources from legitimate shows like a weed does from flowers.  That being said I have to say that if there HAS to be a reality show then it should be The Biggest Loser.  TBL is a bunch of fat people who strive to lose weight; I assume the winner\u2014the person who loses the most weight at the end\u2014wins some sort of cash prize.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Apparently they understand that comparing a 200lb person&#8217;s weight loss to a 500lb person&#8217;s weight loss cannot be done with mere numbers alone, they know they can&#8217;t just say &#8220;A lost 10lbs while B lost 150lbs so B wins&#8221;.  This is why instead of using their raw numbers they use percentages, the ratio of weight lost to weight at the start of the show.  This is good.  Unfortunately it&#8217;s not good enough.  A 500lb person can easily lose 200lbs bringing them down to 300lbs; that&#8217;s a 40% loss.  However for a 200lb person to lose 40%\u2014which is 80lbs\u2014to get down to 120lbs is a LOT more difficult.  They were smart enough to avoid raw numbers but did not do enough math to make this a truly fair competition.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, at least it&#8217;s a useful, positive influence reality show for once.  Of course I can&#8217;t wait for it to end so that real shows can come back to the time slot it hijacked.<br \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate reality television because it hogs resources from legitimate shows like a weed does from flowers. That being said I have to say that if there HAS to be a reality show then it should be The Biggest Loser. TBL is a bunch of fat people who strive to lose weight; I assume the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}