Re: Decadence
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Decadence
  • From: D*@aol.com
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:22:27 -0500 (EST)
Hi Tom,
 
Your suggestions make a lot of sense.
 
Dorothy Willott
 
 
In a message dated 1/8/2012 9:43:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
irises@telp.com writes:

> So,  I'll go back to my previous question, why does any iris with obvious
>  problems climb the award ladder? 

Hi Dana. It's long been my opinion  that the single greatest problem with 
the awards system is that it simply  *counts* the number of judges who vote 
for an iris, rather than capturing  the average assessment of all judges 
who 
are familiar with the iris.  Suppose an iris is evaluated by 100 judges in 
different regions, all of  whom are impressed enough to vote for it. Now 
suppose another iris is  evaluated by 500 judges around the country, and 
for 
400 of them it does  not do well at all. But for the remaining 100 (who 
perhaps live in the  similar climate conditions), it is impressive enough 
to 
vote for. These  are two very different things, but the two irises will 
both 
receive 100  votes and be treated the same by the awards system. Irises 
bred 
by popular  hybridizers have a big advantage, and not just because of 
"politics", but  because the irises from popular hybridizers are grown by 
more people, and  an iris grown by a large number will get more votes than 
an iris grown by  only a few, even if just a fraction of those growing it 
actually rate it  highly.

I would prefer a system where judges rated each iris on a scale  (1 to 5, 
say), and awards given to irises with the highest average rating  from the 
judges who actually evaluated that iris. This would address so  many 
problems, and it could be easily tweaked to achieve other worthy  goals, 
such as requiring a high average rating from judges in different  climate 
areas.


Tom Waters   

Telperion Oasis ~  www.telp.com/irises    

Cuyamungue, New Mexico, USA (zone  5/6)   

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