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Mine is Scorpio. ;) MTD, Sr. |
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On the other hand, one man's silly waste of time is another man's masters thesis. |
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I'd actually be curious to see a study on other factors too. Officials aren't robots and certainly aren't all the same. If heavier officials for example, had a slightly different rate of foul calls than skinnier officials, that would be interesting too. |
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If this was a study on the number of calls calls made by officials based on the officials height, why would they have to adjust the study based on race and experience???
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I saw a study that stated left-handed officials with blue eyes call more fouls on players with even numbered jerseys and nose hair in games held on weekends!
I hope the league gets this straightened out. It's not fair to favor teams whose players wear only odd numbered jerseys and trim their nose hair during warm-ups. :mad: |
Simply Put...
Correlation does not imply causation.
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I totally agree with you. I think if you are going to use height, you better look at other factors or classifications. Also so what if they call more fouls, what does that have to do with calling a better game? Peace |
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But I've only taken enough statistics to get myself into trouble. |
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Referees with OCD call more fouls on players with uneven socks. :)
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If the purpose of the study was to help officials become more consistent, then they certainly would have looked at other factors/classifications. Abstract Given the vast number of observations in a transparent environment, the interaction between players and referees in the National Basketball Association (NBA) provides a real-world laboratory that allows for observation and testing of implicit height-based biases (the so-called “Napoleon Complex”). Controlling for a plethora of referee-specific characteristics and including 4,463 regular season games from 2008 to 2012, we find that (i) more personal fouls are called when a relatively shorter three-person officiating crew is working and (ii) no more or fewer fouls are called when games involve relatively taller players. Such biases are probably not large enough to impact game outcomes but could affect gambling markets. Our findings support the conclusion that relatively shorter NBA referees officiate basketball games differently than their taller peers. The analysis spotlights an oft-suggested but rarely studied bias in a workplace where employees are heavily scrutinized and monitored. |
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