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Here are the burgee poll, Crusty Survey, and Write-In results:
1. What you are about to see is the most flawed use of "poll" results in the history of polling. You could write a book on "Flawed Logic" using this as your only source document. Please do not take my head off for it. Trying to keep everyone happy here although I am 63 years old and have never once successfully pulled that off!
2. The votes were looked at in every way I could think possible. Pure poll votes. Adding in Crusty's survey. Adding in the "Write-In votes to make sure those people are heard from even though they may have figured out how to vote in the actual poll and voted twice, assigning 12-1 point values to each flag depending on where they placed in each vote count, flag with the most points gets a 12, next one 11, next one..10...ties get the same number. I even added them ALL up to get "Total Votes AND Points" which is about as bizarre a polling methodology as there could possible be because it makes no sense whatsoever.
3. The bottom line on all of this is that no matter which way I slice it the same top 6 show up. Oh sure, there could be an argument for good old Flag #5 but if you look at the votes/points in each separate outcome it doesn't belong in the top group. At least to me.
4. The spreadsheet data is below. It is sorted by "Total Votes and Points" which is in the colored column (do ya see what I did there?
). It's also the most flawed way to view the data but again, twist it turn it, I come up with the same basic conclusion.
5. For those of you that are as freaky as I am I will email you the actual spreadsheet so you can play with the numbers yourself. Just PM me. Apparently the forum will not let me attached an XLSX spreadsheet file.
My conclusion, if this were my process which it isn't, would be to take Flags 6, 7, 4, 12, 9, 10 and add in the one I forgot which is Flag #2 in Crusty's survey (gotta represent Flag #2 lovers) and put them all in a Semi Final Poll. Get down to 2 and vote again. That way we can make this an even longer process.
1. What you are about to see is the most flawed use of "poll" results in the history of polling. You could write a book on "Flawed Logic" using this as your only source document. Please do not take my head off for it. Trying to keep everyone happy here although I am 63 years old and have never once successfully pulled that off!
2. The votes were looked at in every way I could think possible. Pure poll votes. Adding in Crusty's survey. Adding in the "Write-In votes to make sure those people are heard from even though they may have figured out how to vote in the actual poll and voted twice, assigning 12-1 point values to each flag depending on where they placed in each vote count, flag with the most points gets a 12, next one 11, next one..10...ties get the same number. I even added them ALL up to get "Total Votes AND Points" which is about as bizarre a polling methodology as there could possible be because it makes no sense whatsoever.
3. The bottom line on all of this is that no matter which way I slice it the same top 6 show up. Oh sure, there could be an argument for good old Flag #5 but if you look at the votes/points in each separate outcome it doesn't belong in the top group. At least to me.
4. The spreadsheet data is below. It is sorted by "Total Votes and Points" which is in the colored column (do ya see what I did there?
). It's also the most flawed way to view the data but again, twist it turn it, I come up with the same basic conclusion.5. For those of you that are as freaky as I am I will email you the actual spreadsheet so you can play with the numbers yourself. Just PM me. Apparently the forum will not let me attached an XLSX spreadsheet file.
My conclusion, if this were my process which it isn't, would be to take Flags 6, 7, 4, 12, 9, 10 and add in the one I forgot which is Flag #2 in Crusty's survey (gotta represent Flag #2 lovers) and put them all in a Semi Final Poll. Get down to 2 and vote again. That way we can make this an even longer process.
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