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Actually I think there should be a intermediary table as a history of activities of each child. Like child table is I'd, name, age, address, and naughty/nice value, activities would be Id, description, and good/bad value. Then a history table of ID, child_id, activity_id. So santa can recalculate a child's naughty/nice value to "check it twice"
Redundancy is key. There should always be two methods for calculating a child's ANNS (Aggregate Naughty Nice Score). I propose a conventional method where activities are graded from -5 to +5 where a child's ANNS is the sum of all their previous activities, this would be a child's historical ANNS. And I propose a second system where only the activities performed within the last 365 days of calculation are considered, to account for children who have drastically changed behavior year to year, this would be a child's current year ANNS. I think the current year ANNS would hold more weight in Santa's judgement but looking at the historical ANNS in conjunction with the current year could help provide a better picture of a child's character.
This is starting to sound like The Good Place with extra steps...
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I mean in a certain light, christmas presents are a yearly bonus for children and Santa checking his list is a management review of the child's performance...