Re: AIS: Symposium/soap box #9
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] AIS: Symposium/soap box #9
- From: l*
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 02 08:24:09 -0500
>being a fully accredited judge
>usually does mean a higher standard for evaluating iris
I would expect this to be true as a general rule, but I still don't see
the application of this higher standard as necessary or even appropriate
for the Symposium. The trained and accredited judges can and should be
assigned the privilege of granting official AIS awards to worthy irises.
Their higher standards for evaluating irises makes them the only
reasonable body for making award decisions. However, we are not
discussing official awards here. We are discussing a POPULARITY poll,
for Pete's sake! Why is my non-judge *opinion* of which irises I like
best less valid that an accredited judge's *opinion* of which irises
(s)he likes best? And how can a poll that so severely limits what is in
actuality an immense collection of potential iris candidates possibly be
considered an accurate representation of what the AIS membership at large
considers the most popular irises worldwide? The short answer - it can't.
I understand that tabulating write-in votes is a considerably more
daunting task than merely tabulating a set number of candidates, but the
diminished workload results in an inevitable diminishment of valid
results. Of course, I'm stuck on the fact that the Symposium is touted
(on the official AIS website, anyway) as identifying the 100 Most Popular
Irises, which it very possibly does not and can not in its current
format. Perhaps if it were renamed "The 100 Most Popular of the Award
Winning TB Irises", the qualifiers would offer appropriate warning of the
very restricted nature of the poll results.
I'll tell you, with all the death in my iris beds this year, I am one AIS
member whose opinion is definitely NOT being represented in the
Symposium. I don't care how many accredited judges grant whichever awards
to certain irises. If those irises can't survive in my garden, they
aren't popular with me! If you want to know which irises made my
popularity list, you're going to have to ask me ... not tell me.
Just had to let that out.
Laurie
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zone 3b northern MN - clay soil
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