Re: Olympic data

[Roger Haar <haar@PHYSICS.ARIZONA.EDU>]

HI,

        Actually the scoring is somewhat coarser.  I
think the individual judges can only score in 0.1
increments.  There are maybe 7 (maybe 6 maybe 8)
judges which means the finest difference is about
0.1 / 7 = 0.0143.  That is about the smallest
difference that I saw last night.

Thanks
Roger Haar

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Pete Lohstreter wrote:
> Forum for Physics Educators <PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu> on Tuesday, August
> 24, 2004 at 7:25 AM -0600 wrote:
> > Athletes are often ranked on the basis of experimental measurements of
> > time intervals. My impression is that differences between some outcomes
> > are too small to be meaningful.
>
> Talking about meaningful(less).  What about the men's gymnastics fiasco.
> Opinions to the 0.001 !
> Any ideas on quantifying this event?
>
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