In the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, a scandal rocked the FigureSkating community. A tight competition between Russian pair skatersElena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze and Canada’s Jamie SaleÌand David Pelletier ended in a major judging controversy thatresulted in the Russian skaters being awarded the Gold medal andCanadian skaters the Silver medal. It was later determined that theFrench judge had been pressured to vote for the Russian pair aspart of a deal to obtain votes for the French ice dance couple in alater event. Responding to media and public pressure, SaleÌ andPelletier’s medal was upgraded to a Gold medal, which they sharedwith the Russian pair skaters. The data describes judges’ scoresfor the leading pair skaters who competed in the Figure Skatingevent, for both the short- and long-programs (there were ninejudges). Using these data for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.A complete answer includes setting the null and alternativehypotheses, conducting the test in Excel, drawing conclusion withregard to each hypotheses, and interpreting each result. Use 5%LoS
| J1 | J2 | J3 | J4 | J5 | J6 | J7 | J8 | J9 |
| Short | 7.25 | 8.5 | 8.75 | 8.25 | 8 | 7.75 | 8.25 | 8.25 | 8.5 |
| Short | 6.75 | 8.5 | 8.75 | 8 | 8.25 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8.25 |
| Short | 7 | 8.75 | 8.75 | 8.75 | 8.5 | 8.25 | 8.25 | 8.25 | 8.5 |
| Short | 7.25 | 8.5 | 9 | 8.25 | 8.25 | 8 | 8.5 | 8 | 8.75 |
| Short | 6.75 | 8.5 | 9 | 8.5 | 8.75 | 8.25 | 8.5 | 8.25 | 8.5 |
| Long | 9 | 9.5 | 9 | 8.75 | 8.25 | 9 | 9 | 8.75 | 8.75 |
| Long | 9.25 | 9.5 | 9.25 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 9 | 9.25 | 8.75 | 9 |
| Long | 9 | 9.75 | 9 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 9 | 9.25 | 8.75 | 9 |
| Long | 8.5 | 9 | 8.75 | 9 | 8.25 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8.5 |
| Long | 8 | 9.25 | 8.75 | 8.5 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8.5 | 8.5 |
