A possible answer to lousy judging "Flash cards"

[Dean Pappas]

Y'know Bill ... I am actually comforted by that!
Regards,
    Dean P.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Glaze [mailto:billglaze at triad.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:34 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: A possible answer to lousy judging "Flash cards"


Mike:
I started flying the precursor to pattern around 1955.  We had entirely contestant judging.  (Although on a slightly different basis.)
The biggest competitor complaint?  Guess What?  The judging!  And, I remember being the CD at an AVERAGE sized contest.  We had 154 competitors.
BTW: The 2 biggest judging complaints were from competitors having to judge, and the second was about the quality of judging by these competitors.
Sound familiar?  As it has been said, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Bill Glaze

mike mueller wrote:


I propose that flash cards be brought back to judging. It would allow judges to be critiqued by their peers. The way it works is the judge has numbered flash cards on his lap. The scribe sits behind the judge and records the data. Nothing new here but if a guy is scoring vanilla it will be detected. If a guy is giving good scores to bad snaps it would give others the ability to straighten him out. Flash cards worked in the old days and they are sorely needed now. If you like the idea and your a CD it's as easy to try as doing it. To the best of my knowledge there aren't any rules to stop you. Flash cards made speculating more fun and was educational. 
 Has anyone done this in recent times? 
      I'm searching for an answer here. Do you have a better solution because if your leaving it up to the good faith of others then you have what we have now? Human nature always reverts back to the same bad habits no matter how much you beat things into others. In the end it's a system that fails not humans.Edward Deming stated that 85% of all failures are due to systems problems and the remaining 15% are human. I believe he was correct. Our system is flawed and it's keeping the sport back. 
 I stated before that I don't like contestant judging. On average the decline of pattern that started in the mid 80's parallels the advent of this procedure. I realize that it's too hard to fix it now but something has to change.It's pretty easy to experiment with flash cards. I know from personal experience that it works and I can't see why we got away from it.
 It's good to debate, Thanks, Mike Mueller
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



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