Judging - What Do Clubs Do

[P3D <shab@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George asks what clubs do to judge slides.


We, at the Cascade Stereoscopic Society, have tried at least 2 judging
methods. One is to chose 3 judges who are also competitors, but cannot vote
on their own slides. We have done this both ways: using primitive
electronic input devices or just written entries. We did the same also with
judges who are not competitors.

More recently we decided to involve all the members in judging. So far the
mechanics of this method have been to give each member a form which they
use for voting, later, two members tabulate the results during the break
period. This method seems to be much more objective. With this method we
have also allowed the judges to vote on their own entries. This, in my
opinion, has the advantage that the  total  population sample increases,
and assuming that the judges  give maximum points to their own slides, it
makes the base sample larger,thus perhaps diminishing the statistical
errors and it doesn't really change much of anything else.

Furthermore, so that we don't have what I call "the salad bar" phenomenon,
where you crowd your plate with lettuce and have little room for the Greek
olives, (or the first contenders get the worst grades) in your case, we
show the slides twice, the first time for preview, the second for voting.

I too am interested to know how other clubs do it and whether our method
has merits that can be adopted by others.

So far the main problem with this democratic approach is the relative large
size of paperwork involved, but it isn't so bad as it sounds and tabulating
can be finished in about 15-20 minutes. We will have this hurdle solved
however, when Mike K., finishes a design for super easy state of the art
electronic voting devices that will do everything except express opinions.
Right Mike?

Shab Levy
Portland, Oregon, USA
shab@xxxxxxxxxxxx



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