In honor of the Winter Olympics (Men’s Short later today!), and since we’re thinking about questions of value and incommensurability in the Compass class right now, Prof. Arthur Bahr made a brief video that explains the current scoring system of figure skating and puts it–as well as the values it represents–in historical perspective: Below are the two earlier performances, conceived under different judging systems, that he refers to at the end of the video above. Happy Games!
1976 Innsbruck Olympics John Curry LP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z79TMsYRnEc
2012 US Nationals Jeremy Abbott LP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHbADOamI3s