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There are several topics already in this subforum (for example, see Gunther Sonnemann's 2018 posting about Kevin Mayer or Janek Salmistu's 2016 posting about the 538 article). Since I have a large dataset (introduced in my posting several days ago), several years ago I used it to take look at the question of the tables' fairness for myself. The result is an unpublished article. The main …

I began building databases of decathlon and heptathlon performances since 2002. I have applied only one filter ‐ ‐ adult hurdles and implements. I include everything I can find on the Internet, in books, newspapers, magazines, or anywhere else. So far, I have well over 90, 000 entries in each database, representing about 30, 000 athletes of each gender and covering the …

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Hi Lother and Gunther, Thanky you for reading and commenting on my article. I found it interesting that you both presented examples of why the fairness of the scoring tables is still questioned, although that may not have been the reason for your comments. As long as we have only qualitative definitions of fairness, we are limited to exchanging opinions, with no way to determine if …

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In the UK we have the same problem on a national level, we have gone from over 100 decathletes scoring 5000 points or more. In 2006 we had 40 decathletes over 5000 points. It is an alarming statistic.