Aren't the score's double counted when entered into the computer for accuracy by two different people ?
Where I thought you were asking was for the judges to get to see the scores from the other judges at their table so they can evaluate their measurements compared to their peers who judged the same food.
Pens might help, but it can be crossed out. What is the exact rule about a judge fully erasing a score or crossing out.
Vinny,
Unfortunately the scores are not double counted. You are relying upon the accuracy of the person who is entering the scores. Most of the time this is done very well and the system works. However there have been those times when people do not do their work, and allow mistakes. Not all mistakes can be caught, but many common data entry failures and mistakes can be identified, if you take the time to review your work product.
I agree it would be great to have judges see how they judged compared to the table. We encourage judges to discuss entries after they turn in their score cards. Currently the software will not track judges for us. Their is a program that might, but is not in use, and has not been beta tested. We are looking for programers and Don Harwell had a request for bid to write a new program for KCBS.
Judges are not to change a score once written. We take pens to our contest to discourage changes. If a mistake has been made, we require, (not mandated by KCBS) that the judge initial the change and the table captain initial the change. This also protects us as Reps, as to why a score card has a change upon it. Then the table captain has to explain to the us why the change was made. This does, in my opinion discourage the temptation to change scores. Most changes of scores are as a result of comparing entries which is forbidden.
Yours in Q
Merl