Feb 27 2010
Fan’s Top Songs Poll: Update
With about 24 hours to go for voting in my little poll, I think it’s safe to say that it’s been a bigger success than I had hoped! I’ve had 116 participants coming from a wide variety of countries and tastes. Believe me, some songs have gotten votes, or even multiple votes, that I’d never have dreamed would be on anyone’s top 10 list.
I’ve been tabulating and spread sheeting (is that a term?) the results as they’ve come in, so I should be able to get them out to you fairly quickly. Right now, I’m taking a break from double checking all of my totals to write this. The only question is how to present the data… So many options. The fact that I’m excited about figuring out the best method of data presentation just shows what a huge dork I am. I’m not sure what to do about all the songs that got only one or two votes. Should they be mentioned, or considered not statistically significant? Determining statistical significance was always me absolute least favorite part of writing lab reports. I just can’t seem to get the hang of it. Where should the cut-off be for “enough votes to be listed”? Hmm. Any opinions on that.
Anyway, it’s still not too late to vote if you haven’t yet! Voting will close at midnight Japan time tomorrow (February 28th).
So excited about this!
~Celestia~
You should list everything
Even the ones with just one vote can make a good list of recommendations for people to listen or relisten to.
Also, it’d be nice to see how many people voted for anything, in addition to the number of votes (given that people can submit 10 votes for the same song).
i can’t wait to see the results
Look at The Village Voice’s famous annual “Pazz & Jop” polls…the use the same kind of measure for the top albums and singles. They list the rank and number of votes each album/song got. If you can list every song voted for that would be great even if ti got only one vote.