Why Are The Results From Panel And Panelist Performance Different?
Although the panel performance and the panellist
performance seems to be linked, at least from an interpretation point of view
(one could expect that the panel is discriminating if panellists are
discriminated), the analyses involved different data (the panellist performance
is based on subset of data, while the panel performance uses all the data at
once). Hence, it can happen that assessors are not so well discriminating while
once combined, the overall results show good discrimination.
The panel and panelist performance do not rely
on the same statistical analysis. Panel performance is based on ANOVA, and the
agreement is based on the product:assessor interaction.The panelist performance is taking only the
panelist data, and the agreement at an individual level is based on the
correlation between that assessor scores and the average across panels.These 2 stats are completely different, have completely
different implications/assumptions, so cannot be compared one to one. Also, in some situations, the lack of
disagreement can be simply due to a different use of the scale, meaning that
the assessors are still “ranking” the samples in the same way, BUT are
emphasizing more or less certain differences.
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