A Fairer Way to Compare Weightlifters Across Weight Classes and Sexes – with Marianne Huebner
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🏋️♀️ Extended version of this interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/comparing-and-157852639 🏋️♀️
How to compare who is a better weightlifter if the lifters are from different weight classes, sexes, or age groups? We could compare lifters of different body weights using Sinclairs, Robi points, or Q-points before, but never of different sexes. Now we can with GAMX points. Dr. Marianne Huebner has spent the last few years developing and testing statistical models that allow ranking across body weights, sexes, and, in some cases, ages. It is a huge deal as IWF promised to support the use of the method in ongoing and possible new formats of competitions.
Marianne Huebner is Professor of Statistics and Probability, Adjunct Prof ...
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