Re: Evaluation of skating

2002-02-22 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 19 Feb 2002 15:14:01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Bond) wrote: [ snip, much ] > affected who won the gold medal. In fact, Looney (1994, p. 156) > concluded: > "all of the judges with an Eastern block or communistic background > not only ranked Baiul better than expected, but ranked Ker

Re: Evaluation of skating

2002-02-20 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Next question: How much does Rasch analysis depend upon the evaluators being ignorant that the method will be used? In other words, can (A) one Rasch-aware judge (B) a minority of Rasch-aware judges (C) a majority of Rasch-aware judges (but not the whole

Re: Evaluation of skating

2002-02-19 Thread Trevor Bond
Title: Re: Evaluation of skating At 3:49 PM -0500 19/2/02, Dennis Roberts wrote: One list I am on, we were having a discussion about how it would be possible to make changes to the methods used in the judging of Olympic Figure Skating, so as to make it less possible for collusion in the judging