Expectation Biases In Gymnastics Judging Summary
“Expectation Biases in Gymnastics Judging”
The article “Expectation Biases in Gymnastics Judging” written by Henning Plessner seeks to investigate the influences that affect systematic judging in Gymnastics.Generally termed, ‘the placement effect’, the article derives a hypothesis based from this, explaining that if gymnasts competing within a team are placed in fifth competing position, then they will more likely score higher than the gymnast competing first. The experiment also investigates if the occurrence of schemas, social judgements and encoding, have an effect on the final results produced by the judges. The article is somewhat confusing in the first few paragraphs, as the author has included blocks of information to establish a background knowledge for the audience. Although this is a positive, as it affiliates the audience with the need for research and analyses past …show more content…
Plessner expected to establish if there was also a large difference between scores if judged in a panel compared to an individual judge. The effect of the type of apparatus (slow apparatus being floor, rings and parallel bars; and fast apparatus being pommel horse, vault and horizontal bar) was also tested, with a hypothesis stating that the placement effect would be stronger and more apparent with the fast apparatus compared to the slow.
The article’s experiment procedure was very precise in relation to the sample and the considerations made to replicate an authentic gymnastics competition. The sample included 48 nationally certified German gymnastics judges, with an average age of 45 years and an average judging
The article “Expectation Biases in Gymnastics Judging” written by Henning Plessner seeks to investigate the influences that affect systematic judging in Gymnastics.Generally termed, ‘the placement effect’, the article derives a hypothesis based from this, explaining that if gymnasts competing within a team are placed in fifth competing position, then they will more likely score higher than the gymnast competing first. The experiment also investigates if the occurrence of schemas, social judgements and encoding, have an effect on the final results produced by the judges. The article is somewhat confusing in the first few paragraphs, as the author has included blocks of information to establish a background knowledge for the audience. Although this is a positive, as it affiliates the audience with the need for research and analyses past …show more content…
Plessner expected to establish if there was also a large difference between scores if judged in a panel compared to an individual judge. The effect of the type of apparatus (slow apparatus being floor, rings and parallel bars; and fast apparatus being pommel horse, vault and horizontal bar) was also tested, with a hypothesis stating that the placement effect would be stronger and more apparent with the fast apparatus compared to the slow.
The article’s experiment procedure was very precise in relation to the sample and the considerations made to replicate an authentic gymnastics competition. The sample included 48 nationally certified German gymnastics judges, with an average age of 45 years and an average judging