Braeunig, Patrick (M. Sc.)

Doctoral research project

Research on interrater reliability and national bias among judges in elite international sports sheds light on key aspects of objectivity and integrity in performance evaluation. Insights into the relationship between evaluation guidelines and interrater reliability offer valuable guidance for designing scoring systems that prioritize objectivity. Systematic analyses of judging data also enable the identification of biases in decision-making behavior, which intersect with a range of scholarly domains, including social choice theory, organizational decision-making, social cognition, and specifically, ingroup bias.