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New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0
Dekortage writes "If you watch the Olympics gymnastics this year, you may be confused by the new scoring system which will let athletes score 14, 17, or even higher. The new rules are 'heavy on math' and employ two panels of judges: one for technical difficulty, which adds points up from a score of zero; the other for execution and technique, which starts at 10.0 and subtracts for errors. The two numbers are then combined for the final score. As one judge put it, 'The system rewards difficulty. But the mistakes are also more costly.' The new rules were adopted after South Korea protested a scoring at the 2004 Olympics." Now I'm sure that no Slashdot reader will intentionally watch any "sport" that has judges determine the winner, but their wives/girlfriends might seize control of the remote because they want to know who is the best at that ribbon-twirling thing.
Pedophile.
Every single one of them is jailbait.
I'm a woman, I read /. , and I don't watch gymnastics... What does this make me?
I quite often look at the cash in the till when in the supermarket - does that make me an armed robber ?
No.
There are countries in the world where 12 or 14 is the normal age for marriage and sex - does that make the whole country paedophiles ?
Yes.
After all, I am strangely colored.
That doesn't prove jackshit. You might want to look at the Scientific method. OTOH, There has been scientific work that somewhat confirms some of the traditional prejudices.