How do federations influence the results?

[Mango]

Hi there, I just wanted to write in because I am the editor of @skatingprotocol. I've been a long time poster on Golden skate, though I've posted less frequently recently.

It's not my goal to reveal any major biases in my analyses. You'll see that I've called out judges from all countries, including American, which is my own nationality. My investment in this is to enjoy the statistics (I created a program that calculates all the scores), and also because, well... No one else was doing it. The whole point of transparency in figure skating and IJS is to call out unfair judging and make the sport more fair. Judges who score way far off the range (higher or lower) are defeating that purpose.

I am indeed friends with Dave Lease, but I can assure you that I am the one writing all of the posts -- he encouraged me to start it up since I mentioned it, and is resharing a lot of my posts because hopefully it is good and interesting content. I also intend on writing full length posts on the Skating Lesson page. And for what it's worth, he and I disagree plenty on a number of skaters and teams. But hopefully that doesn't come across anyway, since my goal is to report the statistics fairly.

Happy to field any further questions. - Mark

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Oh - one final note (please see my earlier reply in the thread)-- I've been using ordinals only when it was easier to see among multiple scores (e.g.,with 3-5 teams across 9 judges) which way the judges went. When possible, I've been erring on the side of posting the full scores. They are time intensive to calculate, so I usually try to include them since I have to calculate them anyway.

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Thanks for joining us in this discussion. I wanted to point out a few things.

First, the ISU deals with judges who go out of an acceptable range. There are meetings even at events to discuss scores.

Second, the use of ordinals is strange. I am still not sure why you are doing it. Ordinals have no place in skating outside of the US.

This kind of analysis, minus the personal comments, is what I find meaningful: http://goldenskate.com/forum/showth...ance-Mens-FS&p=1548404&viewfull=1#post1548404

Have you considered doing something like this?