Difficulty bias was found in Morgan and Rotthoff (2014) , claiming that trying something harder leads to a higher overall ranking, ceteris paribus . This was measured in elite level gymnastics, which at some meets allows for a unique measurement of this form of bias. Multiple studies also find evidence of an overall order bias. I analyze if these two forms of bias still exist in elite level gymnastics. I continue to find evidence of difficulty bias with this updated dataset and find strong evidence that these biases are different across genders - females have evidence of a large and significant difficulty bias, whereas males do not. However, the evidence of an overall order bias does not exist in this dataset.
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