Malhar. With it's huge ass events and huge ass judges. Events like the band events, the dance events, the theater events etc etc all have renowned judges from all over. Renowned, UNBIASED judges. But anyway, let's look into that. What makes for a non-biased judge? How does the organizer foresee and prevent any objections that the contingents may have? Or at the very least ensure the judge's fairness evaluation?
Qualities of an Unbiased Judge:
1. They shouldn't know the name of the competing colleges (In case, they were ex-students or something like that).
2. They shouldn't BE in any competing colleges (For obvious reasons).
These, i think are the basic qualifications a judge at such a big festival should have.
Now, let's look at the acapella event. From what i hear ( i HOPE i'm wrong), a Third Year student (!) from Nirmala Niketan is the judge for the finals. He's not from a competing college, but still a STUDENT! More than that, an ex-Wilsonian student who's very vocal about his love for Wilson College. One can still argue that this doesn't mean he's biased, and that most judges are ex-students of some college or the other, and that there's no way he'd recognize the Wilson contingent anyway. Well here's this: he played in a band with Wilson CL's brother, and she calls him her 'rakhi brother'; and he is playing in a band with one of the acapella group members. And they BOTH know that he's gonna be the judge.
With all due respect to the judge, this may count for some sub-conscious bias, or at the very least it would play on his mind that he knows two of the singers in the Wilson group.
The same judge was there last year for the finals, too, and the same two people in the Wilson contingent were there last year too, and Wilson didn't even figure in the top 3. This can mean one of two things:
1. That Wilson simply weren't good enough, and the judge ruled fairly.
2. That the judge hates Wilson college, and hence deliberately low marks.
See, i know the judge, and he definitely won't be biased. At ALL. But that's not the point, is it? Any competing college, if they find out about this, can complain and bring this matter up, right? Malhar can always argue that he judged fairly last year, and so there shouldn't be a problem. But that doesn't matter to the college that raised the issue, right? The point is that there is enough evidence to show that he COULD be biased. End of story.
Personally, i don't care. It's probably better for Wilson that he's there. I should learn how to end blogs.
2 comments:
Ahaha you really should. Good post though. And by the way thanks for the link man.
My word today is Brommo...someone into bros and mos perhaps?
i do thank you. you and your matheranian brommos.
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