WINETASTER ON 01/15/99 WITH 7 JUDGES AND 10 WINES BASED ON RANKS, IDENT=N Copyright (c) 1995-98 Richard E. Quandt


FLIGHT 1: Number of Judges = 7 Number of Wines = 10
Identification of the Wine: The judges' overall ranking:
Wine A is Pouilly Fume Guysaget 96 ........ 8th place Wine B is Sancerre Roger 96 ........ 10th place Wine C is Sancerre Bourgois 96 ........ 3rd place Wine D is Villa Maria NZ 97 ........ 2nd place Wine E is Pouilly Fume Bourgois 97 ........ 5th place Wine F is Pouilly Fume Seguin 97 ........ 6th place Wine G is Selaks 97 ........ 7th place Wine H is TementSteirisch Klassik, AUT 97 ........ 4th place Wine I is Pichler AUT 96 ........ 9th place Wine J is CloudyBay 97 ........ 1st place
The Judges's Rankings
Judge Wine -> A B C D E F G H I J Kai 9. 8. 1. 3. 4. 10. 6. 5. 7. 2. Geli 3. 5. 8. 2. 9. 7. 4. 6. 10. 1. Doro 2. 9. 8. 4. 3. 5. 6. 7. 10. 1. Pascale 7. 4. 6. 8. 2. 5. 9. 3. 1. 10. Wolfgang 10. 9. 3. 1. 5. 7. 4. 6. 8. 2. Pit 9. 10. 4. 6. 5. 3. 7. 2. 8. 1. Karl 6. 10. 3. 2. 8. 7. 9. 5. 4. 1.
Table of Votes Against Wine -> A B C D E F G H I J
Group Ranking -> 8 10 3 2 5 6 7 4 9 1 Votes Against -> 46 55 33 26 36 44 45 34 48 18
( 7 is the best possible, 70 is the worst)

Here is a measure of the correlation in the preferences of the judges which ranges between 1.0 (perfect correlation) and 0.0 (no correlation):
W = 0.2782

The probability that random chance could be responsible for this correlation is quite small, 0.0411. Most analysts would say that unless this probability is less than 0.1, the judges' preferences are not strongly related. We now analyze how each taster's preferences are correlated with the group preference. A correlation of 1.0 means that the taster's preferences are a perfect predictor of the group's preferences. A 0.0 means no correlation, while a -1.0 means that the taster has the reverse ranking of the group. This is measured by the correlation R.
Correlation Between the Ranks of Each Person With the Average Ranking of Others
Name of Person Correlation R Kai 0.6930 Wolfgang 0.6727 Karl 0.5879 Pit 0.5636 Doro 0.2918 Geli 0.1636 Pascale -0.5289

The wines were preferred by the judges in the following order. When the preferences of the judges are strong enough to permit meaningful differentiation among the wines, they are separated by -------------------- and are judged to be significantly different.
1. ........ 1st place Wine J is CloudyBay 97 --------------------------------------------------- 2. ........ 2nd place Wine D is Villa Maria NZ 97 3. ........ 3rd place Wine C is Sancerre Bourgois 96 4. ........ 4th place Wine H is TementSteirisch Klassik, AUT 97 5. ........ 5th place Wine E is Pouilly Fume Bourgois 97 6. ........ 6th place Wine F is Pouilly Fume Seguin 97 7. ........ 7th place Wine G is Selaks 97 8. ........ 8th place Wine A is Pouilly Fume Guysaget 96 9. ........ 9th place Wine I is Pichler AUT 96 --------------------------------------------------- 10. ........ 10th place Wine B is Sancerre Roger 96 We now test whether the ranksums AS A WHOLE provide a significant ordering. The Friedman Chi-square value is 17.5247. The probability that this could happen by chance is 0.0411 We now undertake a more detailed examination of the pair-wise rank correla- tions that exist between pairs of judges. First, we present a table in which you can find the correlation for any pair of judges, by finding one of the names in the left hand margin and the other name on top of a column. A second table arranges these correlations in descending order and marks which is significantly positive significantly negative, or not significant. This may allow you to find clusters of judges whose rankings were particularly similar or particularly dissimilar. Pairwise Rank Correlations Correlations must exceed in absolute value 0.65 for significance at the 0.05 level and must exceed 0.56 for significance at the 0.1 level Kai Geli Doro Kai 1.000 0.127 0.152 Geli 0.127 1.000 0.600 Doro 0.152 0.600 1.000 Pascale -0.285 -0.855 -0.564 Wolfgang 0.842 0.321 0.297 Pit 0.491 0.067 0.345 Karl 0.624 0.261 0.248 Pascale Wolfgang Pit Kai -0.285 0.842 0.491 Geli -0.855 0.321 0.067 Doro -0.564 0.297 0.345 Pascale 1.000 -0.527 -0.188 Wolfgang -0.527 1.000 0.576 Pit -0.188 0.576 1.000 Karl -0.309 0.576 0.515 Karl Kai 0.624 Geli 0.261 Doro 0.248 Pascale -0.309 Wolfgang 0.576 Pit 0.515 Karl 1.000 Pairwise correlations in descending order 0.842 Kai and Wolfgang Significantly positive 0.624 Kai and Karl Significantly positive 0.600 Geli and Doro Significantly positive 0.576 Wolfgang and Karl Significantly positive 0.576 Wolfgang and Pit Significantly positive 0.515 Pit and Karl Not significant 0.491 Kai and Pit Not significant 0.345 Doro and Pit Not significant 0.321 Geli and Wolfgang Not significant 0.297 Doro and Wolfgang Not significant 0.261 Geli and Karl Not significant 0.248 Doro and Karl Not significant 0.152 Kai and Doro Not significant 0.127 Kai and Geli Not significant 0.067 Geli and Pit Not significant -0.188 Pascale and Pit Not significant -0.285 Kai and Pascale Not significant -0.309 Pascale and Karl Not significant -0.527 Pascale and Wolfgang Not significant -0.564 Doro and Pascale Not significant -0.855 Geli and Pascale Significantly negative




COMMENT: Kai: New Zealands wines are absolutely parfumed, without any elegance Tement's wine is considered to be almost a French wine, the real outstanding wine is: Bourgois Sancerre, the other French wines were nothing special Wolfgang: Pichler is an example how to kill a wine with oak. Amazing is the Villa Maria because of its non-over-parfumed flavour Pascale: New Zealand are too straight Karl: It is hard to taste these different wines agains one another. The styles are too different.
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