Hank asks for an explanation of continental Europe's excess of Olympic bronze over gold medals (2024)
ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2024-08-19) · owner: Hank
In August 2024 Hank thanked viewers for explaining why continental Europe won more Olympic bronze medals than gold: more bronzes are awarded, since several sports give two per event.
About: Olympic Games, Europe
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-16 | asked | Hank says a snarky tweet made him curious and he seems to have found a real phenomenon he would love someone to write a full research paper on, as he had no time to check his work. (hedged) | I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… 00:06:57 |
| 2024-08-19 | result reported | Hank thanks viewers for explaining continental Europe's excess of bronze medals: more bronze medals are awarded, since several sports give two per event. → refers to I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… | The Olympics Mystery Explained!!! 00:03:24 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says he appears to have uncovered a cool Olympic mystery that no one seems to know about and that he cannot explain, found through silly Twitter discourse. (hedged) — 00:00:00
- 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank cites a tweet mocking Americans for addressing everyone as Europeans: Europe as one country would have 116 gold, 122 silver and 160 bronze medals. — 00:00:58
- 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank notes Europe's 160 bronze medals: 0.21 bronze medals per million people, far more than the US's 0.12. — 00:04:39
- 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank: Checking earlier Games, Hank finds it no 2024 fluke: continental Europe won 114 gold and 155 bronze in 2021, 113 and 139 in 2016, 108 and 138 in 2012. — 00:04:39
- 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank argues the pattern controls for events, population and affluence: the same countries and events every Games, yet every Olympics for the last 20 years, possibly longer, shows continental Europe with significantly more bronze than gold. — 00:05:29
- 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank: Since money and socioeconomic status usually explain most things, Hank guesses less affluent countries may invest in elite athletes but less in those further down; China fits, but the affluent US shows no pattern. (hedged) — 00:05:58
- 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank's second guess: bronze placings may be more random, gold winners being truer outliers, so Europe's larger number of athletes yields more bronze medals. (hedged) — 00:06:28
- 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says it could be something else; he does not know, and would not know how to design the study or do the statistics. (unsure) — 00:06:57