Re: t-and-f: The storm by the numbers

[Ed & Dana Parrot]

DGS wrote:
> >The benefit I have in ranking their rankings is that I have a general
idea
> of  why they did what they did because they tell us.  The athletes are not
> afforded that opportunity, judge and jury, are neither their peers, nor
are
> they asked why.<

and Bob Hersh wrote:
> "Why" should not matter in rankings.  In a given race, somebody wins,
> somebody else takes second, etc.


I  think he was talking about why the judges ranked the way they did, not
why the athletes did what they did.  Bob is of course right that why an
athlete competed the way he/she did is usually not relevent to a ranking.

- Ed Parrot