Abstract
Summary The possible existence of nationalistic bias in the scoring of dressage tests in the competition at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympic Games was investigated. A panel of 5 judges simultaneously scored each performance, with scores totaled for each competitor. Team competition required riding the FEI Grand Prix de Dressage test. A national team consisted of 4 horse-rider pairs, with the top 3 scores counted for the national team total. Four out of 5 judges scored horse-rider pairs from their own nation, for a total of 16 out of 53 competitors scored by co-national judges. Nineteen riders, 9 of whom were scored by co-national judges, competed for individual medals by riding the prescribed FEI Grand Prix Special test. The scores of judges rating their co-nationals were compared by analysis of variance with scores of judges rating competitors from other nations. In the team competition, scores by co-national judges averaged 4.67 points higher ( Although interpretation of these results is limited by the small number of judges and competitors involved, they suggest that a tendency for nationalistic bias was present in the judging of dressage performances in a world-class equestrian event.
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