I have put together some quite comprehensive statistics on nationalistic bias in figure skating judging, which includes every single senior level ISU competition. Unfortunately, the write-up is a bit unwieldy for a forum post as it's quite long and contains graphs and so forth, so I will direct you to this website, where you can read the whole thing.
Here are the top line conclusions:
Biased judging was widespread across most federations (shout out to Australia the one large-ish federation that was pretty clean), but some federations (notably Russia, France, Germany, and Italy) were particularly bad, though not always in the same way.
Considering that the judges play a quite significant role in the careers of young skaters, I thought I would share this here in order to open up a conversation. Of course, I'm sure you guys have many questions as well, so feel free to ask away.
Here are the top line conclusions:
The database currently contains 312 judges, 177 of which I examined for nationalistic bias (the other judges didn’t have an extensive enough judging record), 92 of which showed statistically significant evidence (p<0.05) of nationalistic bias. Of those 74 showed strong (p<0.01) evidence.
Biased judging was widespread across most federations (shout out to Australia the one large-ish federation that was pretty clean), but some federations (notably Russia, France, Germany, and Italy) were particularly bad, though not always in the same way.
Considering that the judges play a quite significant role in the careers of young skaters, I thought I would share this here in order to open up a conversation. Of course, I'm sure you guys have many questions as well, so feel free to ask away.