Re: AIS:Symposium/Soap box #9/Gerry Snyder

Bill, one factor that is overlooked when it comes to popularity is the
"regionalism" of the cultivars.  Picking a national popularity poll winner
will not always be the cultivar that wins the highest number of votes nation
wide.  It should be the cultivar that wins the most Regional  polls.

Region 14 has 616 members or roughly 9.3% of the North American AIS
membership.  Region 10 has 31 members or 0.04% of the North American AIS
membership. This information is based on the AIS membership as of June 30,
2002.  Even if 100% of Region 10 voted for the same cultivar it would not be
as popular at the 10th most popular cultivar in Region 14 based on actual
votes instead of percent of votes.

This is a clear example of why the smaller regions and small hybridizers
will never have equal or even fair consideration under the current system.

With a system in place that allows one of 24 regions to have such a high
percentage of total membership and another region to have such a low
percentage of total membership, then you can easily see how flawed the
current Region distribution system is.  Imagine if the Regional membership
statistics affect a popularity poll in such a manner, how they are affecting
so many other facets of AIS?

Why is the obvious so easily ignored?

Cheers,

Iris Moose
Wake Forest, NC
http://daylily.net/irismoose/


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Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:38 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] AIS:Symposium/Soap box #9/Gerry Snyder


>
> Gerry Snyder,
>
> The AIS membership in general supports the creation of an AIS sanctioned
> "Popularity Poll" that accurately reflects the relative popularity of
irises
> among it's 7000 or so members.
>
> Iris-talk post germane to the issue have run 10 to 1 in favor of creating
> such a poll in a manner similar to that suggested in Soap Box # 9 whereby
5
> or 10 write in iris candidates are compiled and tabulated by region on a
> national level.
>
> Volunteers are willing to compile and tabulate such votes.
>
> It is not necessary to replace the Symposium ranking with the Membership
> Popularity Poll.
>
> Do you believe you understanding of the merits of this issue and the
> memberships desire to do so sufficient to champion it before the AIS board
> and procure its sanctioning?
>
> Thanking you in advance,
> Bill Burleson 7a/b
> Old South Iris Society
>




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