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

Iris Moose wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> ...
> 
> Why is the obvious so easily ignored?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Iris Moose

Perhaps because what seem obvious to one irisarian of good will may seem
frightfully unfair to another.

Why should the vote of someone in Region 10 count 20 times as much as
the vote of someone in Region 14? The division of the US into regions is
(at least somewhat) arbitrary, and is subject to change. Are you really
saying that the winner in an iris vote should change if the regions get
realigned?

Your argument is not totally without merit, but picking the national
winner based on regional rankings rather than total vote would give a
small hybridizer in Region 10 a huge advantage over a small hybridizer
in Region 14, and fail to achieve some of your goals.

This things are not so simple.

Any way of combining regional subtotals has problems, and is of somewhat
limited meaning. As I have said before, as a guide to buying, the
regional results are much more meaningful than the national ones. The
buyer still needs to be aware that these things are a mish-mash of great
growers and super beauties (and ...), but regional rankings mean a lot
more than the totals.


-- 
g*@attbi.com
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair and Director, Region 15 RVP
in warm, winterless Los Angeles--zone 9b-ish, Sunset 18-19

 

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