[eDebate] Harvard -- Octos Judges -- 8am

[NEIL BERCH]

Over the course of the tournament, teams that ended up clearing saw 15% 
women judges.  Teams that ended up going 2-6 or worse saw 31% women judges.  
Your point would be well-taken if this were an isolated situation.
--Neil Berch
West Virginia University



>From: "Martin Harris" <mharris02 at drury.edu>

>To: <berchnorto at msn.com>

>CC: <edebate at ndtceda.com>

>Subject: Re: [eDebate] Harvard -- Octos Judges -- 8am

>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:29:54 -0600

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> >Did the 16 best teams at Harvard just pref 24 men and no women? Wow.

> >--Neil Berch

> >West Virginia University

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>I won't make conclusions or arguments about the make up of octos judges

>in general, but I am not sure it is fair to say the outround

>participants prefed NO women. Round 8 kind of demonstrated to me for the

>first time how difficult the MUTUAL thing might be to make. It is

>possible, even if not probable, that the outround teams all preferred a

>significant number of women, but those prefs weren't mutual. My

>understanding is there was a round 8 matching that literally had 1 judge

>in the entire pool that could fit as an A-A match. I am just saying, we

>should be careful to make inferences off of data. Correlation does not

>necessarily suggest causation.

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>Martin Harris

>Computer and Graphics Support Specialist

>Hammons School of Architecture, Drury University

>Office Phone: (417) 873-7497

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