At 8:53 AM -0500 2/14/02, Stephen Black wrote:
>For immediate release:
>
>I have been asked by the Olympic Committee to look into the
>question of how the use of ordinals to determine rank may have
>affected the outcome of the judging of the pairs competition. At
>a press conference earlier today I announced my findings.
>
>It wasn't the ordinals' fault. Using interval data,

But, can you justify this use on the basis of their measurement techniques?

>I calculated
>the average combined scores awarded to the Canucks and the
>Ruskies. My findings:
>
>Canucks: 5.833
>Ruskies: 5.817
>
>Outcome: Canucks by a hair

Whose?


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