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		<title>Go blind, Price</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s never too late to fix anything. Just remember that the next time you&#8217;re watching &#8220;The Price Is Right.&#8221; I speak, of course, about the flawed bidding process to get up on stage with Bob&#8230;er, Drew. How many times have you been watching &#8220;Price,&#8221; and the last contestant bids &#8230; one dollar higher than the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s never too late to fix anything. Just remember that the next time you&#8217;re watching &#8220;The Price Is Right.&#8221;</p>
<p>I speak, of course, about the flawed bidding process to get up on stage with Bob&#8230;er, Drew. How many times have you been watching &#8220;Price,&#8221; and the last contestant bids &#8230; one dollar higher than the previous highest bid. And often, that bid wins. Sure, it&#8217;s smart &#8211; they&#8217;re playing the system &#8211; but every time, I find myself thinking the same thing. &#8220;That&#8217;s a jerk move. At least bid $50 higher. C&#8217;mon!&#8221;</p>
<p>The bidding process gives an advantage to the person who&#8217;s been waiting the longest. I get that. The show doesn&#8217;t want to strand the same sad contestant on the floor for an hour. But why should contestants gain any kind of advantage in a competition of skill, when their very participation in the game was luck-based? It&#8217;s not fair.</p>
<p>(I know, life&#8217;s not fair. But this isn&#8217;t life. It&#8217;s a game show. This can be controlled.)</p>
<p>The thing that kills me about the whole situation is that the fix is so obvious. Blind bidding. Every contestant bids at once. &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; figured this out long ago.</p>
<p>Not only would blind bidding be fairer than the current process, it&#8217;d be more suspenseful. And you&#8217;d get crazy, ridiculous bids from clueless contestants. Who doesn&#8217;t want to see more of that?</p>
<p>(For those of you who thought this post would be a written wish to rob <a href="http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/pricema01.html">Mark Price</a> of his vision, sorry to disappoint.)</p>
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