Huge amount of work - kudos for that! Looking forward to the next episodes, because the contents of this one were no big surprise (to me at least). If you have looked at protocols regularly, the high scores for the judge's own skater are quite easy to notice. Already during the time on anonymous judging, statistical analyses showed that if a skater had his/her/their own judge in the panel, the scores were higher than in the opposite case. Now it is quite easy to see why that is so - and indeed, it is valuable to get that result from real numbers.
However, if more than 50% of the judges tested score with a national bias (and more are likely to be proven to do the same when they sit in more panels), I was wondering how does it affect the results? If and when just about everyone does it, do the biased scores simply cancel each other out in the end? Would the end results of competitions be different if each judge was more objective on this aspect of scoring?
This also applies to scoring the main opponent low - if just about everybody does it, is it significant when it comes to the end results? That it happens has also been quite easy to see just reading protocols regularly. (In the Hanyu example, it was interesting to see that the US judge gave him such a low score in a competition where there was no apparent reason for it - Jason Brown was there, but he did not get a huge score from the US judge and surely had no real chance of beating Hanyu anyway. So it might just be that the US judge really did not value that particular skate from Hanyu very high?) And again, it would be interesting to know if the high and low scores from biased judges cancel each other out. But this is coming, right?
The bloc voting thing interests me also - it was discussed before the anonymity was removed and during the first fall I remember checking the judging in the GP series looking at how judges from different areas scored. It was a tiny material and so the conclusions were not very significant, but at least in the 2016 GP series, the Western Europeans tended not to score Fernandez high whereas the Asian and former Soviet country judges did. Almost vice versa for Hanyu. Chan got good scores mostly also from the same pool of judges as Fernandez. I also remember noticing that CAN and USA judges do not give any favours to each other's skaters.
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However, if more than 50% of the judges tested score with a national bias (and more are likely to be proven to do the same when they sit in more panels), I was wondering how does it affect the results? If and when just about everyone does it, do the biased scores simply cancel each other out in the end? Would the end results of competitions be different if each judge was more objective on this aspect of scoring?
This also applies to scoring the main opponent low - if just about everybody does it, is it significant when it comes to the end results? That it happens has also been quite easy to see just reading protocols regularly. (In the Hanyu example, it was interesting to see that the US judge gave him such a low score in a competition where there was no apparent reason for it - Jason Brown was there, but he did not get a huge score from the US judge and surely had no real chance of beating Hanyu anyway. So it might just be that the US judge really did not value that particular skate from Hanyu very high?) And again, it would be interesting to know if the high and low scores from biased judges cancel each other out. But this is coming, right?
The bloc voting thing interests me also - it was discussed before the anonymity was removed and during the first fall I remember checking the judging in the GP series looking at how judges from different areas scored. It was a tiny material and so the conclusions were not very significant, but at least in the 2016 GP series, the Western Europeans tended not to score Fernandez high whereas the Asian and former Soviet country judges did. Almost vice versa for Hanyu. Chan got good scores mostly also from the same pool of judges as Fernandez. I also remember noticing that CAN and USA judges do not give any favours to each other's skaters.
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