[photo-3d] Re: Contest Judging

[Gee <73157.2172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I'd be interested to hear (or read) how other clubs address this issue.

Dr. T replied:
>>In Detroit they have a 4th judge sleeping in the sidelines.
>>When a judge's entry hits the screen then this judge dials
>>zero, the awards chairman wakes up the 4th judge and he
>>goes ahead and scores.  This system is not fair either IMO.

Let me clarify this.  First, we try to select three judges who are
competing stereographers
who just happen to not have slides in that month's competition.  On the
rare
occasions when there are less than three judges meeting that criteria, we
use
the fourth judge system.  The fourth judge is only asked to score when one
of the first three
judges (Dick, Jane, or Tom for our discussion) enters a zero as a score to
indicate the slide on
screen is theirs.

Now in theory, the fourth judge would know that slide they are judging
belongs to
Dick, Jane, or Tom, but does not know exactly who.  The fourth judge is not
informed which judge
number scored a zero, or even which person is judge one, two, or three.  
Sometime, you can
make an educated guess based on your knowledge of Dick, Jane, or Tom's
work, just who
it is, but you can never be certain.  The judge is assumed to have enough
integrity that even
IF for some reason they were certain who's slide it was due to having seen
it prior to the compitition,
they would judge impartially.  I personally have never seen a fourth judge
score used that
was way out of line with the other judges.

I also believe that given the constraints of our judging equipment, that
our system is as fair as it can be.
If the judging box could handle four judges, I would have judge four score
all time, and only
use those scores when needed, keeping secret from judge four exactly when
their scores were
being used.  If anyone else can think of a better system, I'm open to
suggestions.

                                                                       
Derek Gee
                                                                       
Detroit Stereographic Society