[NSRCA-discussion] NSRCA BOD Meeting, 27 September

[Derek Koopowitz]

I think skewed is probably the wrong word... :-)

I'm certainly not speaking for Jon, but I'm thinking that perhaps Jon meant
that we are missing data for several years and really the only way to do
this properly is to start over and ensure that it is done right especially
now that we have a software program that does it for us.

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Ronald Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net> wrote:

> 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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