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The Worth of Olympic Medals
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13/08/2008 18:32:50
 
 
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Sports
Catégorie:
Olympiques
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Thread ID:
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Message ID:
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>If you take, say, a decathlon, then the winner is the guy who did consistently well, maybe only coming 3rd in every event, and not necessarily being best in any. Now, if we say a gold medal is worth 3 points, a silver 2, and a bronze 1, then say one nation at the end had earned just 2 gold medals, and another 7 bronzes, which nation has a better sports record, ie which would come higher in the tables?
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>I've often thought this when viewing the medal tables. I think the golds trump any no. of silvers then bronzes, but it doesn't seem right to me.

Depends upon how you define "Better" and that's really a personal preference

IMO.........2 Silvers is better than 1 Gold, but 2 Gold is better than 3 Silver.

How to factor in the Bronze?????

Don't know. 2 Silvers is better than 1 Gold, but 2 Bronze is not better than 1 Silver.

Seems as if the trick is to come with a weighting (5 3 1???? 5 4 1???? etc) to represent the relative values better
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