| @Dralcoffin: The problem is that Sporcle quizzes, in practice, use city limits as the standard. I've taken countless "largest city" quizzes on this site. The only ones that ask about metro area specify metro area. Eventually, I just started typing random U.S. cities in, because I had no idea what would be on here and what wouldn't. I kept rolling to the top to see if I had missed some instructions, because I knew these weren't city populations. A city's population is the population of, y'know, the city. The "metro area" generally includes lots and lots of different cities. The Phoenix metro area, for example, has dozens of cities--some in the U.S. top 50 in their own right. Why should they be considered part of "Phoenix" if someone asks me where Phoenix lies in the U.S. population rank?
@mrscrub: This is my issue with the quiz. San Jose is larger in population than San Francisco. In 2010, San Jose had almost 150,000 more people than the city of San Francisco (945,000 vs. 805,000). So, why is San Fran on the quiz, while San Jose is not? Why is the larger city part of the "metro area" of the smaller one? This makes no freaking sense. I actually typed San Jose in this quiz five times, thinking I'd somehow managed to misspell an extremely simple name.
This quiz could have been good. The lack of instructions and failure to use the generally understood guidelines of almost all population quizzes on the site make it severely lacking. It's just too inconsistent. |
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