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Those events aren't decided by the judges just going on how 'cool' they think the performance was, but by comparing how close to perfect (as defined in the rule
by dagw 2y ago
Those events aren't decided by the judges just going on how 'cool' they think the performance was, but by comparing how close to perfect (as defined in the rule book) the techniques the athlete did was and then giving it a score based on how that technique is scored in the rule book.
The rulebook will say something like "technique A is worth 4.5 points; subtract 0.1-0.3 points if the arms aren't straight throughout the whole technique...". The judges role is then to judge if the arms where in fact straight or not. These sports are a lot more objective than people think.
- Zambyte 2y agoAnd the same can be applied to poetry, no?
- dagw 2y agoRank the different poetic metres from lowest to highest score? What is objectively the hardest type of metaphors to execute perfectly? How many fewer points should a simile get compared to an equivalent metaphor? Are onomatopoeia worth any points? List all the allowed poetry topics and then given them a base difficultly score from 1-5. Once you have finished writing the rulebook for Olympic Poetry, do you think the poetry that would result from people going through that rulebook and min-maxing their poem would actually be interesting.
- Zambyte 2y agoI'm not suggesting that poetry should be in the Olympics, I'm just agreeing with the parent comment saying that judging could be done the same as any other Olympic sport that uses judges.
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoNo it can't. That's GP's point. We can reason that one gymnastics skill is more technically difficult than other skill, with various degrees of certainty. We cannot reason and especially codify the same for poetry or its component parts.
- Zambyte 2y agoWhat? They started giving examples of exactly how it can be codified. Their point was that it would likely produce uninteresting poetry, not that poetry can't be judged by some set of metrics.
- micromacrofoot 2y agothere are existing olympic sports with "artistic" scoring components, and poetry was already in the olympics for nearly 40 years... ya'll are overthinking this
- micromacrofoot 2y ago> giving it a score based on how that technique is scored in the rule book giving it a score based on the judge's interpretation on how the technique is scored in the rulebook — there have been plenty of unpopular interpretations over the years