[NSRCA-discussion] NSRCA BOD Meeting, 27 September

[Jim Quinn]

Hi Ron,

Firstly, thanks for reading our minutes!

Secondly, at the recent BoD meeting, during our lively discussion, Jon's words 
seemed to flow easily. Reading them in the peace of a quiet evening it seemes 
that "skewed" really isn't the word that should have been used. As you know 
there have been occasions in the judging criteria where all hasn't been totally 
smooth. For some reason Nats data has not always been easily available, which 
is a mystery to me, but it isn't always totally clear.

As Judging Chair, Jon is looking at all past Nats and Judging criteria including 
the 2012 Nats. When he has gathered enough data we will get together so I can 
send some names to AMA to be considered as Judges for future World 
Championships.
Jim Quinn 




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From: Ronald Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net>
To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Mon, October 1, 2012 7:30:30 PM
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] NSRCA BOD Meeting, 27 September

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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