Re: Popularity Polls - pro or con

Hi Ellen, and robins,
 I belong to other plant groups and societies. They all have pop polls. They
are all in the following format: A medium group of popular plants listed in
Alphabetical order, and a place to write in votes as well. Recently, the
Region 3 American Hemerocallis Society Regional Vice President has been
extensively emailing all members in his region ( over 1000, I think), to get
them to vote. This has worked out very well. If I am correct, the response
rate was about 40%.
 In many societies, the garden judges or voting judges select a group of
popular plants to vote on , and there are write ins. Jim

Ellen Gallagher wrote:

> (I just sent this to the IrisEditors mailing list but I thought
> I would try to elicit comments on this issue)
>
> Hi all,
>
> There will not be an official 2002 Pop. Poll in TSI this issue.
> *We will have an article with some of the wonderful comments re
> Siberians in various places which the readership feels is more
> valuable in growing Siberians..at least that is what I think.
> (always dangerous to say that)
>
> The Pop. Poll compiler felt that the responses were not
> sufficient for a valid poll and I readily agreed. Some might
> think we had enough but we didn't. What percentage of the
> membership constitutes a valid pop.poll? Does it matter how many
> reply?
>
> The Society for Siberian Irises does not use a pre-printed
> ballot that can easily be checked-marked...only one person in
> 2001 wrote to me saying she preferred it. However, she did vote
> her ballot anyway. Hmmm.
>
> The common wisdom (did not use conventional wisdom) is that by
> selecting the irises that appearĘ on the ballot 'someone' is
> almost guaranteeing what the 'winners' will be. Look at the AIS
> TB ballot (Symposium) and the dearth of responses from thousands
> of members and even less write-ins. Any surprises year after
> year..of course, that can also be said for the SSI ballot. :-)
>
> Any thoughts or is this a done deal in your Pubs.?
>
> Ellen, Editor of TSI
>
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> Berlin, New Hampshire   /   USDA Zone 3a
>
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