Statistical Anomalies Associated with NBA Scorekeepers: A Bootstrap Investigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
George Diemer ◽  
Jun Woo Kim ◽  
Meredith Kneavel
Keyword(s):  
Prospect Theory ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Playing Time ◽  
Do So

In 2009, a Deadspin article documented how an anonymous NBA scorekeeper skewed statistics for various purposes. This research sets out to test the assertions set forth by the author of the Deadspin piece and uses prospect theory and unique statistical techniques to do so. The findings support the assertions proposed in the Deadspin piece that scorekeepers for various venues are skewing the statistics. The discussion provides suggestions for correcting this bias as well as demonstrates how asymmetric incentives by scorekeepers in favor of the home teams could be misused in determining salaries, playing time, trade negotiations, and media attention.

scholarly journals Análisis del rendimiento a través de la utilización de patrones de actividad temporal en jugadores de elite de vóley playa (Performance analysis through the use of temporal activity patterns of elite players in beach volleyball)

Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 67-69
Author(s):  
José Antonio Pérez Turpin ◽  
Juan Manuel Cortell Tormo ◽  
Juan José Chinchilla Mira ◽  
Roberto Cejuela Anta ◽  
Concepción Suárez Llorca
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Average Length ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Total Duration ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
The Real ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Playing Time ◽  
Do So

Para conocer los componentes actuales del rendimiento en vóley playa, es preciso conocer la estructura temporal de la competición. Por ello, el objetivo del presente estudio fue conocer la distribución del tiempo de juego real y absoluto durante el partido, los sets y los puntos en jugadores de vóley playa profesionales. Para esto, se realizaron video grabaciones de 10 jugadores durante cuatro encuentros disputados en el Campeonato de Europa de vóley playa (Valencia 2005). Se cuantificó la duración total de los partidos, sets y puntos al tiempo que se diferenció del tiempo real de juego. Como resultado se observó que la media de tiempo absoluto por partido fue de 37min 17,4s±11min 16,2s mientras que el tiempo real fue de 8min 12s±2min 24s. La duración media del total del tiempo de duración de los sets fue de16min 19,8s±2min 27s. y la real de 3min 25,8s±43,20s. La media de tiempo invertida en la realización del punto fue de 6±0,95s. El conocimiento mejorado del tiempo absoluto y real de juego en los jugadores puede aportar una valiosa información que permita establecer patrones de entrenamiento específicos para el vóley playa.Abstract: In order to identify the real components of beach volleyball performance, we need to know the time structure of the competition. This study was designed to identify the distribution of time in real and absolute play during the matches, sets and points played by professional beach volleyball players. To do so, we made video recordings of 10 players playing four matches at the European Beach Volleyball Championships (Valencia 2005). We measured the total length of the matches, sets and points while differentiating real playing time. We observed that the absolute time per match was 37min 17.4sec±11min 16.2sec, while real playing time was 8min 12sec±2min 24sec. The average length of the total duration of the sets was 16min 19.8sec±2min 27sec and real playing time was 3min 25.8sec±43.20sec. The average time taken to play a point was 6±0.95sec. An improved understanding of absolute and real playing time provides valuable information that allows us to create specific training patterns for beach volleyball.

#MirandaMustGo: Contesting a settler colonial obsession with lost-in-the-bush myths through public and socially engaged art

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Amy Spiers
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Central Victoria ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
Critical Methodology ◽  
Do So

In January 2017, settler Australian artist, Amy Spiers, launched a creative campaign to contest habitual associations at the site of Hanging Rock in Central Victoria with a white vanishing myth. Entitled #MirandaMustGo, the campaign’s objective was to provoke thought and unease about why the missing white schoolgirls of Joan Lindsay’s fictional novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock, prompted more attention and feeling in the general public than the actual losses of lives, land and culture experienced by Indigenous people in the region as a consequence of rapid and violent colonial occupation. The campaign incited significant media attention, substantial public debate and some reconsideration of the stories told at Hanging Rock. In this article, Spiers will describe how she conceptualized the artwork/campaign as a propositional counter-memorial action that attempted to conceive ways in which non-Indigenous Australians can acknowledge, and take responsibility for, the denial of colonization’s impact on Indigenous people. She will do so by discussing the critical methodology that underpinned this socially engaged artwork and continue by analysing the public reception and dissensus the campaign provoked. She will conclude in presenting some thoughts about what #MirandaMustGo produced: a rupture of the public secret of Australia’s violent colonial past, a marked shift to the discourse concerning Hanging Rock and an ongoing, unresolved agitation stimulated by Picnic at Hanging Rock’s persistent reproducibility.

Globalisation of Anti-dumping and Its Impact

2003 ◽  
Vol 38 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 54-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.P. Bhat
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
Special Position ◽  
Frequent Users ◽  
Antidumping Measures ◽  
India And China ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Do So

A steep reduction in tariff duties, dismantling of substantial non-tariff barriers and removing of grey area measures left very little options for the WTO member countries to protect their non-competitive industries. One of the easy ways opened to them has been the initiation of antidumping measures. The WTO rules allow them to opt for anti-dumping measures with some specific stipulations. These are not too strict or stringent to comply with. Besides, anti-dumping has a unique combination ofp olitical and economic manipulability. During the eight years of the WTO regime, the use of anti-dumping measure has become rampant and it is indeed threatening to limit the market access achieved under the GATTIWTO trade negotiations over the last fifty years or so. In the recent years, a large number of developing countries have become the frequent users of anti-dumping (AD) and they account for half of the overall world total. Many of the heaviest AD users are countries who did not even have an AD statute a decade ago. The traditional users continue to make use of AD with more vigour by targeting the new users. The developing countries are targeting each other. The sectoral coverage of AD is over 85 per cent at the end of 2002. As many as 96 countries are the victims and 38 countries are making use of AD actions. The paper attempts to highlight developments in the use of AD actions world over under the WTO regime. It illustrates the position of four important players, namely USA, the EU, India and China as users and the victims of AD actions. It shows the special position of each of these actors occupy in the AD spectrum. Finally, ii concludes on the basis of observations that there is a need to contain and drastically modify the AD agreements to combat the menace. Some suggestions are offered to do so.

scholarly journals The effects of video gaming on academic effectiveness of higher education students during emergency remote teaching

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dávid Papp ◽  
Krisztina Győri ◽  
Karolina Eszter Kovács ◽  
Csilla Csukonyi
Keyword(s):  
Physical Contact ◽  
Video Gaming ◽  
Extracurricular Activity ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Student Relationships ◽  
Quantitative Sample ◽  
Playing Time ◽  
Do So ◽  
Academic Effectiveness

Abstract The pandemic caused a new digital scheme of work to be implemented in higher educational institutes to avoid physical contact, which is referred to as emergency remote teaching in the literature (Hodges, Moore, Lockee, Trust, & Bond, 2020). The inevitable consequence of emergency remote teaching (later on ERT) was that the students’ inter-and extra organisational relationships decreased significantly (Pusztai & Győri, 2021). Based on the results of previous studies, we know that the lack of student relationships is strongly related to ineffectiveness (Astin, 1993; Pusztai, 2015; Tinto, 1975), which was also identified during the period of ERT (Pusztai & Győri, 2021). In the current study, firstly, we hypothesised that the students’ social interactions, which were accomplished by video gaming, could compensate for isolation (Pisan, 2007) and improve their effectiveness. Secondly, we hypothesised that video gaming might prove ineffective due to stressful and uncertain periods as well as avoidance of activity. In our study, we applied database analysis (Learning Alone database, N = 677) and half-structured interviews (N = 19). In the quantitative sample, we identified that increased gaming time (compared to the time spent before the pandemic) was related to persistence reduction, whereas similar results were obtained with the reduced playing time. In addition, the interview participants reinforced that they used video gaming as a tool to maintain their relationships during ERT, and they tended to do so in their relationships with other students as well. Thus it can be said that video gaming is an extracurricular activity that could affect academic effectiveness positively and negatively at the same time.

Framing and Journalism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian von Sikorski ◽  
Jörg Matthes
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Treatment Recommendation ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Causal Interpretation ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Do So

As one of the most popular concepts in current research on journalism and mass communication, framing refers to the idea that actors like strategic communicators, journalists, but also audience members select some aspects of a particular issue and make them salient while other aspects are ignored. Frames refer to a specific presentation of issues or events and therefore construct reality in a meaningful but selective way. They do so by suggesting a problem definition, causal interpretation, treatment recommendation, and/or moral evaluation on a given issue, favoring a specific political leaning and course of action. More specifically, strategic communicators suggest frames that compete for public and media attention, and journalists adopt and alter these frames, which ultimately affects audience members’ individual level frames. Framing as a concept thus explains the power to construct and alter meaning. As a unifying concept, framing has the potential to bridge several areas of communication research and explain the competition of strategic positions on the side of communicators, journalists, and audience members. However, the concept is also plagued by conceptual and operational fuzziness, resulting in arbitrary and incompatible uses of the term. This limits the relevance of the framing concept to theory-driven journalism studies.

scholarly journals Pretrial Publicity

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Pretrial Publicity ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Trial Evidence ◽  
Do So

Pretrial publicity (PTP) refers to media coverage of criminal and civil cases prior to trial. Every era has its high-profile cases involving individuals and businesses—e.g., Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Boston Bomber), Enron, Timothy McVeigh, O. J. Simpson, John Hinckley, Patty Hearst, John Mitchell, Sam Shepperd, Bruno Richard Hauptmann (Lindbergh baby kidnapping), Sacco and Vanzetti. Serious and notorious crimes and cases involving celebrities tend to receive the most media attention. Much media attention will operate to the detriment of criminal and civil defendants—reporting may emphasize the dastardliness of the defendant’s actions, the effects of those acts on victims, the evidence against the defendant, opinions about the defendant’s guilt expressed by law enforcement personnel, and the like. Whenever a case receives substantial PTP—and especially when the PTP is negative—questions arise about the likelihood that a defendant can receive a fair trial. The concern is that the substantial PTP will bias prospective jurors against the defendant and result in a verdict driven by PTP rather than trial evidence. Concerns about the media potentially biasing trials pit First Amendment guarantees of a free press against Sixth Amendment rights of defendants to “a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.” Of course, if media coverage has been substantial and negative, a number of questions arise: has the deck been stacked against a defendant? To what extent? How can this be proven? If there is improper bias, what are the solutions—delay the trial? Give the defendant expanded opportunities to find unbiased jurors? Rely on judges to instruct jurors to put aside their biases (and rely on jurors to do so)? Change the trial to another venue—if there is one where the PTP has not been so voluminous or negative? A substantial body of empirical research has developed over the past fifty years that seeks to answer such questions and do so using reliable research methods.

scholarly journals CIRCULATION AT THE TOP: ELITES, SOCIAL MOBILITY AND INTERGENERATIONAL CAPITAL CONVERSION

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Johs Hjellbrekke ◽  
Olav Korsnes
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Mobility Barriers ◽  
Norwegian Population ◽  
Capital Conversion ◽  
Do So

AbstractDespite calls for bridging the gap between the sociology of social class and the sociology of elites, there are few examples where this actually has been done. This article seeks to do so by applying approachesand statistical techniques commonly used in studies of social mobility in an analysis of circulation mobility in elite formations. Based on register data on the whole Norwegian population born 1955-1975, we analyze the educational and professional intergenerational mobility among “the successful inheritors”. In this way, and by focusing on mobility barriers and trajectories, we seek to uncover patterns of stability and change in family dynastic relations, i.e. relations that primarily are based on inheritedforms of capital. These patterns can also reveal what forms of intergenerational capital conversion have been the most common,and therefore also the most acceptable, in the upper and upper middle classes in postwar Norway, and what conversions have been less common. The results indicate that even in the supposedly egalitarian Norwegian elites, some inheritors prove to be “more equal than others”.Keywords: Elite. Intergerational capital conversion. Mobility. Circulation an the top.CIRCULAÇÃO NO TOPO: ELITES, MOBILIDADE SOCIAL E CONVERSÃO INTERGERACIONAL DE CAPITALResumoApesar dos apelos para suprir a lacuna entre a sociologia das classes sociais e a sociologia das elites, há poucos exemplos em que issotenha sido feito. Este artigo busca fazer isso aplicando abordagens e técnicas estatísticas comumente utilizadas em estudos de mobilidadesocial em nas análise da mobilidade de circulação em formações de elite. Com base em dados de registro de toda a população norueguesa nascida entre 1955 e 1975, analisamos a mobilidade educacional e profissionalintergeracional entre "os herdeiros bem-sucedidos". Desta forma, e focalizando as barreiras e as trajetórias de mobilidade, buscamos descobrir os padrões de estabilidade e de mudança nas relações dinásticas familiares, ou seja, relações que se baseiam principalmente em formas hereditárias de capital. Além disso, esses padrões podemrevelar quais formas de conversão intergeracional de capital têm sido as mais comuns e, portanto, também, as mais aceitáveis nas classes média-alta e na classe alta da Noruega do pós-guerra, e quais conversões têmsido menos comuns. Os resultados indicam que, mesmo nas elites norueguesas supostamente igualitárias, alguns herdeiros provamser "mais iguais do que outros".Palavras-chave: Elites. Conversão intergeracional de capital. Mobilidade. Circulação no topo.

scholarly journals High Stakes

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedicte Carlsen ◽  
Hanne Riese
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
News Report ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Media ◽  
Do So

Abstract Researchers are key sources of an increasing amount of research news in the media. Hitherto, the meagre empirical literature on researchers’ media performances has been divided in two strands: one indicating that researchers are generally motivated to report their research in the media, and the other paradoxically reporting negative experiences of and conflict with journalists. The aim of the present study was to explore Norwegian researchers’ motivations for participating in and experiences of journalistic interviews. We find that researchers’ main reason for seeking media coverage is that they want their findings to be of use to society. This makes it essential to avoid errors or misleading framing of the news report. Despite strong motivations to do so, the researchers experience that communicating through the media is stressful and that their motivations for seeking media attention are in conflict with the motives of some research journalists. The study reveals a link between researchers´ motivation for seeking media coverage and their experiences of conflict with journalists.

Herding and Contrarianism: A Matter of Preference?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Chad Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Prospect Theory ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Contrarian Strategies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Do So

Abstract Herding and contrarian strategies produce informational ineffciencies when investors ignore private information, instead following or bucking past trends. In a simple market model, I show theoretically that investors with prospect theory preferences generically follow herding or contrarian strategies, but do so because of future returns as opposed to past trends. I conduct a laboratory experiment to test the theory and to obtain an estimate of the distribution of preferences in the subject population. I find that approximately 70% of subjects have preferences that induce herding. Using the preference estimates, I quantify informational effciencies and predict trade behavior in more general environments.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Online Reputation Indicators by Means of Geostatistical Techniques—The Case of Rural Accommodation in Extremadura, Spain

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luz-María Martín-Delgado ◽  
José-Manuel Sánchez-Martín ◽  
Juan-Ignacio Rengifo-Gallego
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Final Destination ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Geostatistical Techniques ◽  
Online Reputation ◽  
Do So

The advances achieved in ICT in recent years have led to numerous changes in a multitude of sectors including tourism. The origin of a new communicative reality which allows interaction between users by means of various web portals should be emphasised. In this sense, online reputation arises, which corresponds to the recording of the opinions which the tourist expresses on the Internet of the various tourist destinations and accommodation. This reputation has a significant influence on the processes of planning and choice of the final destination, in such a way that the recording of a number of negative mentions can lead to a decrease in the number of tourists visiting a place. It is for this reason that this study aimed to determine the situation of the online reputation of rural accommodation establishments located in the Autonomous Region of Extremadura by means of an analysis of the opinions recorded by the rural tourist on various web portals of some of the services provided. To do so, we resorted to the application of spatial statistical techniques to determine which districts show an aggregation of high or low values of both positive and negative mentions. At the same time, the strengths and weaknesses of the online reputation of these accommodation establishments were detected.

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