Ski jumping competitions involve subjective evaluations by judges from different countries.
This may lead to nationalistic bias, according to which judges assign higher scores to their compatriots.
To test this claim empirically, we exploit within-performance variation of scores from all World Cup, World Championship, and Olympic Games competitions between the 2010/11 and 2016/17 seasons. (15,000 jumps)
Our findings confirm that judges assign significantly higher scores to their compatriots. The magnitude of this nationalistic bias is significantly higher in more corrupt countries.
We do not find that judges assign significantly different scores to jumpers whose compatriots are present on the judging panel. …
The Utes celebrated both equal opportunity for all AND Olympians.
Opinion polling has shown an increase in support for LGBT rights in the state. A 2017 Public Religion Research Institute poll showed that 44% of Utah residents supported same-sex marriage, a significant increase from the early 2000s. …
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As we’ve always known, NCAA judges apply the rules more accurately when at Div III competitions. It’s one of the worst aspects of the silly College judging scheme.
Using data from every meet for the DIII WIAC teams (the 8 teams in Wisconsin/Minnesota) for the last 10 years—679 team scores—the average score when they compete away at a DI or DII school is 186.104.
Compared to when they compete at home or at other DIII schools or neutral venues, when the average score is 183.776.
That’s a difference of 2.328 in the team score—or greater than four falls—maintained across an entire decade of meets for an entire division of teams.
Far from being an urban myth, DIII teams scoring far higher at DI and DII schools is a long-standing and verifiable reality.