[conlang_learners] Conlang learners vote: results

[James Montgomery]

Thank you guys for doing that for us!!

James

--- On Wed, 9/9/09, Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>
> Subject: [conlang_learners] Conlang learners vote: results
> To: "conlang_learners" <conlang_learners at conlang.org>
> Cc: "conlang_learners_vote" <conlang_learners_vote at conlang.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 5:55 AM
> Fellow conlangers!
> 
> Amanda, Matthew, and I have counted the votes and have come
> to the
> conclusion that the voting is a tie between Kēlen and
> gjâ-zym-byn.
> Both languages have ten first-place votes (after
> reassigning votes
> from other ballots) out of 20 non-exhausted ballots.
> 
> Where multiple languages have the same number of
> first-place votes, we
> used the number of total votes for that language as a
> tie-breaker;
> however, even this was not sufficient to give a clear
> winner; both
> Kēlen and gjâ-zym-byn have 14 votes each.
> 
> Jim suggested not assigning equal weight to each language,
> but to use
> linear or exponential backoff (so a first-place vote is
> worth 1, and
> subsequent votes are worth 1 - 0.0X*(place-1) or
> 0.Y^(place-1)), but
> even this did not give a clear winner; they both ended up
> with a near
> tie between Kēlen and gjâ-zym-byn, and which came out
> first depended
> on the method and the exact factor used, with the
> tie-breaker values
> typically being within about 1.5% of each other.
> 
> So we've decided to declare the vote a tie; of 20 valid
> (non-exhausted) ballots at the end of voting, exactly half
> were for
> each language.
> 
> We suggest that those who ranked Kēlen over gjâ-zym-byn
> or only listed
> Kēlen learn Kēlen, those who ranked gjâ-zym-byn over
> Kēlen or only
> listed gjâ-zym-byn learn that language, and that those who
> picked
> neither pick whichever one of the two they prefer.
> 
> Participation was 28/58, or 48%, of which one ballot was
> empty.
> 
> A breakdown of the results is now at
> http://wiki.frath.net/Conlang_learners/Vote_result ;
> the presentation
> may change a bit as I fiddle with the page but the data
> should not.
> 
> If anyone has questions about the election, the results,
> their ballot,
> or anything else, feel free to ask me or one of the other
> vote
> counters (for example, by sending email to
> conlang_learners_vote at conlang.org,
> which will reach all of us).
> 
> For the vote counters,
> Philip Newton
> -- 
> Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>
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