Who Won? Who the Hell Gets Married in January? Edition
16 January 2005
Gay Couples with Clear Winner: 1 of 1
Straight Couples with Clear Winner: 9 of 10
Men: 8
Women 1
Ties: 1
Disputed Results: 0
Year to Date
Gay Couples with Clear Winner: 2 of 2
Straight Couples with Clear Winner: 15 of 20
Men: 13
Women: 2
Ties: 2
Disputed Results: 3
4 Comment(s):
- Posted by
BrooklynDodger at January 20, 2005 5:46 PM |
Permanent Link to this Comment - Posted by Anna at January 22, 2005 11:33 AM |
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- Posted by
at January 22, 2005 3:15 PM |
Permanent Link to this Comment - Posted by Anna at January 23, 2005 6:33 PM |
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A staff member in H&S who is early in a PhD program at U of M suggests the following methodology for this exercise to eliminate bias. For example, if one rater thought all [or most] men were more attractive than all [or most] women, then women would always [or mostly] be winners and the exercise would prove nothing about the success or failure of any individual man or woman in competition.
Each rater should rate each partner numerically on a parametric scale specific to each gender: men from 1 to 10, women from 1 to 10 [or whatever, it's unlikely that more than a 5 point scale is real; there are studies in psychophysical measurements whicha apply here]. Other rater should be blinded. Results should then be compared. BrooklynDodger assumes that the lower ranking partner is the winner. Median and mean scores should be calculated for each rater for each gender to measure bias; eventually, ratings should be normalized.
Frank has definitely lost sight of the point of this game.
Was BrooklynDodger deliberately outed by the last post?
Well, Anonymous, if BrooklynDodger was anonymous before it was news to me. Though our readership might contain many such fonts of occupational health stats and sport chauvinism as my father-in-law, I think everyone who knows who Frank is also knows who BrooklynDodger is.
