[NSRCA-discussion] NSRCA BOD Meeting, 27 September

[Ronald Van Putte]

I just looked at the minutes of the NSRCA Board of Directors' Meeting on 27 September:   http://nsrca.us/documents/boardmeetings/Board_Meeting_Minutes_-_09-27-2012.pdf

It includes:  "Jon Carter discusses FAI F3A judges to recommend for World Championship. Ranking is based on Nationals finals for FAI and Masters only. Jon recommends that we restart data as the older material is slightly skewed. It is decided to use new data from 2012 forward because and due to Scott Smith’s new software for scoring."

Perhaps one of the NSRCA Board members can explain what is meant by, "the older material is slightly skewed."  

I can understand the inference of a skewing of interpretation of judging data, but data from one year is no better than data from another year.  The data includes contestants, judges and scores.  To me that means that data is data and 2012 data is no better than 2011 data and so on.

Ron Van Putte
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