[Dragaera] Unofficial preliminary poll results (WAS:RE: Drive-bypoll about titles)

[pulmon at Mac.com]

There is a psychological bias involved in making a list, so that there may be a preference for the fray named, whence my idea of weighting. Seems it had no major impact. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com>

Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:18:26 
To:Dragaera at dragaera.info
Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Unofficial preliminary poll results (WAS:RE:	Drive-by
 poll about titles)


Well, I know I just figured my three favorites, and then bumped one (Dragon)
for another (TPG). I wasn't doing any mental judgments of relative merit
between them.

That said, how would you recommend weighting the votes? Give the first title
three points, the second two points, and the final one point and see what
sort of spread results? I'm not a statistician; my grasp of these things is
minimal.

Here's how the list looks using the weighting system described above. Jhereg
floats to the top, but the top vote-getters remain pretty much the same. A
few titles in the middle of the pack switch places but for the most part the
two lists are pretty similar.

Title                Total Points 
----------------     ------------ 
Jhereg			 39	
The Phoenix Guards	 34	
Taltos			 33	
Issola			 29	
To Reign In Hell		 24
Agyar				 13
The Sun, Moon, Stars	 10
Yendi				 07
Dragon			 06
Five Hundred Years After 05
Cowboy Feng's Space Bar	 04
Brokedown Palace		 04
Phoenix			 02
Orca				 02
Viscount of Adrilankha	 03


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