Marking by comparison tends to be more stable. The competitors in the group "skating earlier" will then be divided into two parts: What do you mean by this? If you are not sure of a response when you first open the survey, note that I've set up the survey to allow you to return multiple times to complete or edit your responses once completed. More importantly, is the software of ICECALC—the software studied and imposed by the International Skating Union to calculate the results in all championships and international competitions—the best one from a mathematical point of view?

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They cannot help but be influenced by the order in which the competitors skated. IceCalc put water in their gas tank—they should have to FIX the program. Many are the reasons which caused this decline in the fans' interest. We have lower level categories where elements and sometimes components receive a qualitative assessment based on established criteria. What will happen from next year?

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Once one of the most popular sports for American audiences, skating ratings have been sinking from double figures into the 6. As a matter of fact, secret judging is perceived as a way to hide intrigues or deals among the judges and is detrimental to the credibility of the sport.

This is unfair or an "insult" to ivecalc skaters and to the public, as Dick Pound—the then Vice President of the IOC—declared, but it lcecalc also unfair to the honourable judges who are lumped together with those who cheat. The rules are clear: How long will it last?

The new judging system introduced in —as is well known—was presented as "the solution to all figure skating judging problems. At the moment, it's looking a little bit like tennis, just hitting back and forth and nothing changes.

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The judges have very little definite guidance for what marks to give, and are forbidden from comparing the marks they gave at the beginning of an event or to a previous skater. That principle is violated in the ISU software and in the Canadian proposal. This sounds like an invitation to a wedding party for the judges! The random draw of the judges Studies have proved that there is a wide spread of marks and consequent placements among the judges, even among the top five competitors.

Without the help of explicit guidelines and a self consistent process it is no wonder the Program Components marks increase significantly during an event and reflect more the reputation of the competitor than the actual skating. As Philip Hersh wrote in an article published in The Los Angeles Times—February 3 issue, "Figure skating sadly has become a mind-numbing mathematical exercise, where artistry is only paint by numbers.

Is it right that the winner should be determined by a coin icecakc Who really won the men's title? It has been found that when marking on an absolute standard, over a period of time, marking will drift quite considerably. Surely one is that the sport has become boring, totally uninteresting, with all the programs looking alike.

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I have addressed this matter many times and I do not intend to do it once more here. Now the audience feels cheated.

Technique in our sport is essential. Still, the issue is very intriguing and perhaps some clarification should be provided by the ISU experts themselves!

It is another flaw of the system. We do assessment to standard at this level to introduce them to the concept of competition without the additional pressure of placement and introduce that at the appropriate time in their development.

Of course, whatever the outcome of this analysis may be, it will not affect the results of the U. It is questionable if this point base approach to scoring can ever work reliably! If even math is questionable in the IJS, what is left?

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The former ordinal method of scoring was based on the recognition that humans lcecalc make relative judgements with greater precision than absolute judgements. The anonymity of the icecald judging system is an evident violation of this principle. Secret judging One of the greatest harms done by the ISU to their sport was adopting an anonymous judging system as a response to the Salt Lake City Olympic judging scandal, and eliminating the universally recognised trade mark of the sport: Round up, add it up, multiply by something, do whatever it takes—but it all needs to get down to a number people know, either a 6.

Each of the program components scores has a range of possible values from zero to ten. Under the IJS the judges are now icecwlc to evaluate performances on an absolute point scale without comparison to any other performance.