Updated with second preference votes, total votes and corresponding charts.
http://people.apache.org/~shalin/poll.html On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Some comments: > >> The "straight line" family: 29 votes > >> #3 (the "normal font" one): 21 votes > >> > >> *but* everyone got two votes (right?). If these published vote totals > >> represent both votes, then #3 was disadvantaged by having only one > >> representative of it's "family" there. So odds are, if people had > >> only a choice between their favorite "straight line" logo and their > >> favorite #3 looking logo, that #3 would win. This of course ignores > >> weighting first choices higher than second choices (which I don't see > >> stats on) and assumes that people voting from all the two other logo > >> families (cartoon & curvy) would break evenly. > >> > >> There. clear as mud ;-) > >> > >> -Yonik > >> > > > > There was no restriction on how many times one can vote. However, I don't > > see any repeated names, though people could vote again with another name > ;) > > The original poll form is no longer up.... I thought I remember seeing > a 1st and 2nd choice on a single form, but perhaps that was one of > Mark's polls. > > Anyway, my analysis was about the splitting of a vote... many > variations of one logo while only a single variation of another style. > Doesn't make for a fair vote. > > > I can't say that I follow you and your assumptions, just let me know what > to > > do next ;) > > Whatever you like ;-) I'll personally go with the community at large > in this look-n-feel business (that's why I didn't vote). > > -Yonik > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
