SkatingSquirrel
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A skating fan recently shared in other skating circles a statistical analysis they wrote about nationalistic bias in figure skating. The excerpt below is from the post created by the author at another skating forum:
PS. I'm not the author of this article, just merely sharing it with the approval of the author themselves.
"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:
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."
PS. I'm not the author of this article, just merely sharing it with the approval of the author themselves.
"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:
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."