Improving Experts' Wine Quality Judgments: Two Heads Are Better than One

被引:21
作者
Ashton, Robert H. [1 ]
机构
[1] Duke Univ, Fuqua Sch Business, 100 Fuqua Dr,Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708 USA
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D O I
10.1017/S1931436100001577
中图分类号
F3 [农业经济];
学科分类号
0202 ; 020205 ; 1203 ;
摘要
This paper reports an analysis of data from the "Judgment of Paris," the 1976 blind tasting of California and French wines that revolutionized the wine world. Using both empirical and analytical methods, I demonstrate that the wine quality judgments of the renowned experts who participated in the Paris tasting would have been improved simply by averaging the quality ratings of two or more of the judges. Moreover, I explore both how many of the Paris judges should be included in the average and which ones they should be. The results have implications for the practical issue of choosing judges to include in tasting panels that award prizes or provide expert advice to consumers, as well as for better understanding the variability in the price-quality association across hedonic wine pricing studies.
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页码:160 / 178
页数:19
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