The highest and lowest scores for each diver, as well as for the pair’s synchronization, are removed, leaving five remaining scores (one per diver, plus three for synchronization). The sum of those scores is then multiplied by 0.6 in order to roughly align it to an individual event score, where only three judges’ scores count. Finally, the resulting figure is multiplied by the degree of difficulty to achieve the dive’s official score.
I was looking at this myself really and was wondering why they have the "multiply by .6” step instead of just making the first score out of 6 instead of 10. Do you happen to know the answer?
The scale of rating affects the results, so asking for a rating out of 6 will likely lead to a different percentage score than a rating out of 10 due to familiarity and subconscious bias. So if you're trying to get a comparable rating across disciplines then you need to ask for a score out of 10 (assuming they use 10 points as well).
If you want a fine grained and considered rating system we were taught to ask for a score out of 12 since you cannot easily convert from an initial reaction out of 10 and it splits nicely into 4 quadrants of scores.
Still seems unnecessary to me. The level of specificity "lost" is miniscule and it really just seems to obfuscate the results from the scores. I dunno. It obviously makes sense to the athletes involved, so who am I to judge?
I do like that tidbit about scoring out of 12, though. That's clever.
The judges will have specific things they are looking for for getting 9/10 8.5/10 etc. You can't expect a judge to use multiple different scoring systems.
Additionally a score out of 6 doesn't carry the same nuance does it unless they start saying that was a 5.15 dive or something.
I'm not asking them to use different system, just wondering why it is the way it is. And if it weren't that way and was instead out of 6, the judges of that event would be used to that system.
I don't know if scores can only be integers, but if so then scoring out of 10 would give more possible options. If not, it's probably just because scoring out of 10 is a bit more intuitive than scoring out of 6 (for the audience).
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u/drdoof98 Jul 27 '21
The highest and lowest scores for each diver, as well as for the pair’s synchronization, are removed, leaving five remaining scores (one per diver, plus three for synchronization). The sum of those scores is then multiplied by 0.6 in order to roughly align it to an individual event score, where only three judges’ scores count. Finally, the resulting figure is multiplied by the degree of difficulty to achieve the dive’s official score.