Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 02:33:54 07/29/00
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On July 29, 2000 at 04:29:28, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >I don't like any sport or contest that uses judges. Ice skating, high diving, >beauty contests, etc. all use judges and the judges disagree all the time, >because they all use different criteria for making judgements. They make >personal assessments based on what they personally think is more important and >according to their tastes and sensibilities (biases) . I hate that, so I don't >watch such events, except for the occasional beauty contest when I don't mind >quite so much ;-) Finally a voice of reason. There's no arguments that support replacing empirical data with pure subjectivity or that they're measureably better independent of the number of games. Either it's a question of misunderstanding the ELO system or ignorance about the ability to extract objective information by observation alone. Oh well, it's not the first time. Best wishes... Mogens
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