In Sport, How Do We Decide Whos Best

13/11/2019 7 min
In Sport, How Do We Decide Whos Best

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Episode Synopsis

Brian Tarran, editor of Significance (www.significancemagazine.com), interviews Lancaster University’s Harry Spearing (https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/~spearing/) about the application of extreme value theory to the ranking of Olympic swimmers, as well as ranking in sports more generally.