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Survivor winners and players ranked by objective data, and the results are surprising

All 23 Survivor winners have been ranked based on objective data about their performance on their seasons, including jury votes, and Survivor Palau’s Tom Westman comes in at number one, while original winner and former inmate Richard Hatch is dead last. Survivor South Pacific winner Sophie Clarke is in 14th place. That’s according to True Dork Times’ “Survival Average,” which uses 10 different criteria to come up with a numerical value reflecting their success at the game. Those include things such as the number of challenge wins, votes cast against the player, and votes for the person who was actually voted out—all quantifiable criteria, but arguable as to whether or not those things are important. But the rationale is explained in a glossary on each page. The same data is available for indiviual seasons, with each contestant ranked, and there are surprising and not-so-surprising results. Frequently, the season’s winner was the person with the highest score, but sometimes that’s no...