TY - UNPB
T1 - Expert judgment versus public opinion
T2 - evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest
AU - Haan, Marco
AU - Dijkstra, Gerhard
AU - Dijkstra, Peter
N1 - Relation: http://som.rug.nl/
date_submitted:2003
Rights: Graduate School/Research Institute, Systems, Organisations and Management (SOM)
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - For centuries, there have been discussions as to whether only experts can judge the quality of cultural output, or whether the taste of the public also has merit. This paper tries to resolve that question empirically, using national finals of the Eurovision Song Contest. We show that experts are better judges of quality: the outcome of finals judged by experts is less sensitive to factors unrelated to quality than the outcome of finals judged by public opinion. Yet, experts are not perfect: their judgment does still depend on such factors. This is also the case in the European finals of the contest
AB - For centuries, there have been discussions as to whether only experts can judge the quality of cultural output, or whether the taste of the public also has merit. This paper tries to resolve that question empirically, using national finals of the Eurovision Song Contest. We show that experts are better judges of quality: the outcome of finals judged by experts is less sensitive to factors unrelated to quality than the outcome of finals judged by public opinion. Yet, experts are not perfect: their judgment does still depend on such factors. This is also the case in the European finals of the contest
M3 - Working paper
BT - Expert judgment versus public opinion
PB - s.n.
ER -