Är det alltid rätt person som vinner? - DiVA
Är det alltid rätt person som vinner? - DiVA
Är det alltid rätt person som vinner? - DiVA
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eliability is perfect, the quality of the measurement is still not good. In<br />
judging sports one of the main problems seemed to be to find a balance<br />
to judge the sport with as high reliability as possible without it affecting<br />
the validity in a negative matter.<br />
Sports where goal, time etc., are the deciding factor of the results<br />
might have <strong>som</strong>e other problems than the above sports. To measure<br />
time in hundreds of a second for an alpine skier, where the snow<br />
conditions are changing a lot throughout the race and the best skiers<br />
are in the first starting group to get the best conditions, is interesting.<br />
In which other test are the best people given the best circumstances? It<br />
would be similar to give the easiest test to the best students. New<br />
measuring techniques and their possibilities for precise measurements<br />
also brings forward the question of how to round off the scores. How<br />
little or how big difference between the athletes is justifiable in the<br />
<strong>det</strong>ermination of a winner? In situations where the result earlier would<br />
have been tied it is now possible to decide a winner due to more<br />
precise measurements. Results based on measurements are also partly<br />
depending on a <strong>person</strong>’s ability to read the instruments, and with<br />
photo finishes the winner is by a great part decided by a judgment. In<br />
sports where records are measured in hundreds of a second it is<br />
extremely important that everyone are competing on an equal length of<br />
distance. That sounds like an obvious fact but after a second thought,<br />
it’s easy to realize that is not so obvious. Not all swimming pools and<br />
running tracks in the world can be exactly the same length and the<br />
international federations have regulations for how much they maximum<br />
are allowed to differ. Still very small length differences can be of<br />
big importance in the <strong>det</strong>ermination of a record.<br />
Even in sports where the numbers of goals <strong>det</strong>ermine the winner it<br />
could be questioned if the “right” team always wins. Many times the<br />
loosing team feels they are the best team because they played the most<br />
offensive and the most technical game and had the best chances. The<br />
goals in those sports are not either counted as goals before the referee<br />
has approved them, which means that the judge or the referee has big<br />
impact on the results.<br />
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