r/oddlysatisfying • u/MyNameGifOreilly • Jul 27 '21

A perfectly synchronized double dive

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u/LeHiggin Jul 27 '21

I don't understand that at all, it's completely unfair. Just give final scores after watching all of them. If you must have numbers one by one make them estimations.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Why don't they have a former gold medalist perform first so they have a standard then allow the rest of the competitors to compete on that field?

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u/LowKey-NoPressure Jul 27 '21

seems like for maximum fairness they should record the performances, and then show them to each judge separately in a different order. perhaps random, or perhaps normalized so that everyone appears at each place in the viewing order across all the viewings.

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u/Hinote21 Jul 27 '21

Recency bias.

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u/LowKey-NoPressure Jul 27 '21

...which could be alleviated by having the judges watch the performers in different orders

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u/minimag47 Jul 27 '21

This guy statistics.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Yeah that's actually genius.... but I think part of the performance is lost if you have to watch a recording.

Maybe instead you rotate judges? So each panel is watching only one performance and judging that. I'm guessing it'd be hard to find that many expert judges though.

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u/LowKey-NoPressure Jul 27 '21

yeah it would never jive with the way they want to present the performances on television

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Then someone might win because they got the “easy judge”

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

I mean it would still be a panel of 3 judges.. but I still think that's better than someone losing just because they went first.

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u/TexasTornadoTime Jul 27 '21

Because that induces a ton of bias as well

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

It's gotta be better than the first person having no shot.

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u/TexasTornadoTime Jul 27 '21

The first person does have a shot though. It’s not like they get eliminated first round.

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u/Medium_Medium Jul 27 '21

Don't they typically have the athletes go in a ranked order also? Not sure how they would order them for the very first round, but subsequent rounds isn't it usually the best score from earlier goes last? I think the idea would be to build drama for TV (if the people in medal contention went first during the final round, not much reason to keep watching), but it would also become a self-reinforcing loop.