The observers had to judge in which array the color change occurred.
Under the interim judging system, in which 9 of the 14 judges' marks are chosen at random by computer, it was impossible to know whether the 6.0 counted.
Vanagas complained about the judging culture in which they form their opinions at practices, where skaters perform in full costume to impress them.
Macfarlane said the 10-month judging process, in which 152 novels were whittled down to six, had been "very peaceful".
It is of course impossible to judge in advance which of the many projections (by sex, age group and cancer site) will prove to be the more accurate.
If possible the choice of effect measures should be explained, though it is not always easy to judge in advance which measure is the most appropriate.
In one experiment subjects were asked to judge scenarios in which the only difference was whether the employee was at his office desk or at home.
In November, his lawyers described an incident to the judge in which Mr. Ghailani was subjected to "a visual inspection of his rectal area".
For example, he organized a contest in conjunction with USA Today for a grass-roots pageant judge in which 76,000 people entered the sweepstakes.
It comes ahead of the expected release of a conversation recorded by a fellow judge – in which Carmody purportedly refers to his fellow judges collectively as "scum" – to media under Right to Information laws next week.
Judge Pickering's opponents have said that their principal case against him is not about his racial sensitivities but about his record as a judge in which he has done such things as question the one-person, one-vote principle.
