A Field Survey of Whether a Country Show's Produce-Judging Rubric Moves a Ranking, or Just Records It
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement surveys 47 produce judges across 19 regional show societies, comparing each judge's sealed pre-scoring expectation against their completed scoresheet for 312 judged classes. First place matches exactly in 88% of classes, a judge's walk-in confidence predicts the eventual scoresheet margin closely, and an ablation finds requiring every rubric column does not measurably change how often the two agree.
| Authors | Casimir Beng , Dagny Okafor , Thandiwe Solberg |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.a7p1c3 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 1 output |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_a7p1c3,
author = {Casimir Beng and Dagny Okafor and Thandiwe Solberg},
title = {Scored to Match: A Field Survey of Whether a Country Show's Produce-Judging Rubric Moves a Ranking, or Just Records It},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.a7p1c3},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-surveying-a-country-a7p1c3/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}