15.02.2022

‘The Economist’ features updated results of ski jumping study

The magazine ‘The Economist’ features updated results of a study on professional ski jumping which was recently published in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

The study was jointly conducted by Alex Krumer (Molde University College, NOR), Felix Otto und Tim Pawlowski (both University of Tübingen) and finds that judges in ski jumping assign significantly higher scores to their compatriots. The Economist recently augmented the study by adding data of the 2010 and 2018 Olympic Winter Games to the original data provided by the researchers. The findings of this updated analysis suggest that the average nationalistic bias nearly doubles when including these Olympic events.

According to the Global Investigative Journalism Network this article was amongst the Top 10 of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter in week 7/2022.

The Economist: find the article here

Paper reference: Krumer, A., Otto, F. & Pawlowski, T. (2021). Nationalistic bias among international experts: Evidence from professional ski jumping. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12451.

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