Anything Can Happen in Women's Tennis, or Can It? An Empirical Investigation Into Bias in Sports Journalism
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
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Výsledek na webu
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=L.CNj6rMUJ" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=L.CNj6rMUJ</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167479519890571" target="_blank" >10.1177/2167479519890571</a>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Anything Can Happen in Women's Tennis, or Can It? An Empirical Investigation Into Bias in Sports Journalism
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
The claim that "anything is possible in women's sports" frequently employed by both sports journalists and general audiences highlights the widespread perception of a seemingly uncontested truth about female athletes and their (in)ability to perform consistently at peak levels in comparison to male athletes. We focus on this treatment of female athletes in the world of women's tennis and contest the "common sense" and "experience" justifications of the unpredictability in women's sports with actual data to reveal clear media bias. Utilising a database of the Association of Tennis Professionals and Women's Tennis Association tournaments dating back to the late 1960s and covering approximately 225,000 fully described matches, we examine the "anything can happen in women's tennis" assumption through logistic regression, focusing on the effect of rank differential on the winning probability in the match while controlling for other factors (tournament type and stage, court surface, age differential, and elite players). The results are rather shocking. The women's matches do not show higher instability or lower predictability at all, but rather the contrary-the men's matches show lower dependence on the rank difference. The results are robust as checked for data sets of the year 2000 onwards and those including only special events such as Grand Slams.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Anything Can Happen in Women's Tennis, or Can It? An Empirical Investigation Into Bias in Sports Journalism
Popis výsledku anglicky
The claim that "anything is possible in women's sports" frequently employed by both sports journalists and general audiences highlights the widespread perception of a seemingly uncontested truth about female athletes and their (in)ability to perform consistently at peak levels in comparison to male athletes. We focus on this treatment of female athletes in the world of women's tennis and contest the "common sense" and "experience" justifications of the unpredictability in women's sports with actual data to reveal clear media bias. Utilising a database of the Association of Tennis Professionals and Women's Tennis Association tournaments dating back to the late 1960s and covering approximately 225,000 fully described matches, we examine the "anything can happen in women's tennis" assumption through logistic regression, focusing on the effect of rank differential on the winning probability in the match while controlling for other factors (tournament type and stage, court surface, age differential, and elite players). The results are rather shocking. The women's matches do not show higher instability or lower predictability at all, but rather the contrary-the men's matches show lower dependence on the rank difference. The results are robust as checked for data sets of the year 2000 onwards and those including only special events such as Grand Slams.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
—
Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2021
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Communication & Sport
ISSN
2167-4795
e-ISSN
—
Svazek periodika
9
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
5
Stát vydavatele periodika
GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska
Počet stran výsledku
19
Strana od-do
742-760
Kód UT WoS článku
000499529100001
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
2-s2.0-85075950138