Re: AIS: Symposium/soap box #9

I am not an AIS member, so I would not be allowed to vote in any case, 
but Laurie's points sure seem well made and convincing to me.....

Bill Wells


 

laurief wrote:

> >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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