JUDGING SELECTION: APPOINTING CANADIAN JUDGES

Judging the judges: Evaluating the performance of international gymnastics judges

Judging a gymnastics routine is a noisy process, and the performance of judges varies widely. The International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG), in collaboration with Longines and the Université de Neuchâtel, is designing and implementing an improved statistical engine to analyze the performance of gymnastics judges during and after major competitions like the Olympic Games and the World Champio...

Judging the judges: keeping objectivity in peer review.

As I write this, the 2002 Winter Olympic Games are underway. The events surrounding the judging of the ice skating competitions will forever remind us of the need for objectivity when assessing human performance and of how difficult it can be to be objective. Sometimes objective measurement is easy— there is no question about events like bobsledding. This is not the case, however, when artistic...

The Selection and Tenure of Judges

Runaway Judges? Selection Effects and the Jury

Reports about runaway jury awards have become so common that it is widely accepted that the US jury system needs to be ‘fixed.’ Proposals to limit the right to a jury trial and increase judicial discretion over awards implicitly assume that judges decide cases differently than juries. We show that there are large differences in mean awards and win rates across juries and judges. But if the type...

The Debate over the Selection and Retention of Judges: How Judges Can Ride the Wave