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dsrtao(This is mostly for Elizabear, but, hey, feel free to read it.)
I was vaguely bothered by the new ISU judging system incorporating random dropping of judge's scores; it turns out that Real Statisticians agree with me. http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay/EC2006/
The upshot: closely graded competitors can be ranked in different orders depending on which scores are randomly thrown out; actual data from recent competitions shows exactly that happening.
I was vaguely bothered by the new ISU judging system incorporating random dropping of judge's scores; it turns out that Real Statisticians agree with me. http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay/EC2006/
The upshot: closely graded competitors can be ranked in different orders depending on which scores are randomly thrown out; actual data from recent competitions shows exactly that happening.
