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Ski Jump Judges Show Favoritism Towards Their Compatriots

Evidence suggests that judges show favoritism towards their compatriotsky jumpers. Academic from molde university college in norway has been looking at biasonsky jumping for some time. After controlling for a bunch of factors such as the leniency of individual judges and the quality of ski jumpers, academics found that nationalistic bias among ski jump judges was modest but pretty widespread.

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