On May 10, 1:00 am, Jerry Wass wrote:
Thank YOU for your comments and the listing of all the movies nominated,
of course the later movies are still fresh in peoples minds-9 ('CEPT us
old fogeys w/alzheimers) I feel certain that most of this groups members
appreciate your toiling with the figures, regardless of the outcome. THANKS

wrote:
I ran this poll for EAA and am very interested in this thread... would
like to assure everyone that the voting was not rigged! Top Gun did
genuinely receive the most votes, although it was quite a close-run
thing with Twelve o' Clock High.

... (The top 10 on this list are the ones that
were ultimately voted on in the main poll which received 10,270
votes).


I assume from the description that the last participants
in the final vote had ten choices and that _Top Gun_
received a plurality (less than 50%) of the votes. Sort
of like how Arnold Shwartzenegger was elected Gropenator
of California.

If so, aside from what Mr Wass noted, there is another effect
in play here, which is a 'dilution' effect. Had the voting been
single elimination, in which the movie receiving the fewest
votes had been eliminated followed by another round of
voting, and THAT process continued until one movie received
a majority, the result might have been different.

Of course multiple runoff voting is much more logistically difficult,
even if more accurate.

IIUC, there is plan so show several of these at Oshkosh. It
might be interesting to poll those viewers viewers afterwards.

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FF