Order effects in the results of song contests: Evidence from the Eurovision and the New Wave

Order effects in the results of song contests: Evidence from the Eurovision and the New Wave

The results of song contests offer a unique opportunity to analyze possible distortions arising from various biases in performance evaluations using observational data. In this study we investigate the influence of contestants’ order of appearance on their ranking. We found that, in the New Wave S...

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Main Authors: Evgeny A. Antipov, Elena B. Pokryshevskaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2017-07-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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The results of song contests offer a unique opportunity to analyze possible distortions arising from various biases in performance evaluations using observational data. In this study we investigate the influence of contestants’ order of appearance on their ranking. We found that
in the New Wave Song Contest
expert judgments were significantly influenced by the contestant’s running number
an exogenous factor that
being assigned randomly
clearly did not influence the output quality. We also found weaker statistical evidence of such an ordering effect in Eurovision Song Contest finals of 2009 > 2012. Keywords
Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/16/16121/jdm16121.pdf

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