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2009.02.06, 09:21 AM | #201 | |
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I've participated in a similar poll, albeit manually tallied, on a Beatles forum where we undertook a sort of playoff system. The end goal was to wind up with a number one rather than a complete rank though. What we did was rank the songs on a single album at a time. When all the albums were internally ranked, the three top songs from each album moved on to a second round. They were split into groups of twelve or so (not sure how, but this is certainly where you run the risk of bias creeping in) and those groups internally ranked. We eventually got down to a single grouping of 10 top songs and a final ranking was created. This method took a long time to complete but was very manageable, not to mention a fun diversion over a long period of time. Certainly drawbacks exist if we are looking to create a robust ranking, but it is a fine method to determine an overall winner (and could be used to determine an overall loser also if extended to the bottom tiers). A logical ranking drawback involves the fact that subsets are equally ranked which may not be the case. In other words, all albums are considered equal from the start, while one album and the songs on it may be considered decidedly weaker than one or more other albums by the voting majority (not naming any names ), but the method ignores this. The top 3 songs on the weak album would go up against the top 3 on the other albums, when most would consider the middle or even bottom tier songs on the strongest album to be better and higher ranked than the best of the weak album. This should not affect the final winner, but clearly alters a final ranking. Sorry if I just mucked the waters instead of offering a viable alternative to ranking the entire catalog, but I guess my question is do you know of a voting method that would allow the division of catalog into more manageable voting races yet still result in a complete ranking? Although, if we are only interested in identifying truly overrated and underrated songs, the middle may not really matter, just the top and bottom rankings. |
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2009.02.07, 02:13 AM | #202 | |
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For a small sample of how people worldwide rate it, take a look here: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/alb...kuri_no_hana_/ |
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2009.02.07, 06:18 AM | #203 |
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To Ringo~Bingo:
I wasn't sure whether to include Watashi to Houden either but since the system allows for ties, I thought it wouldn't hurt to include it. To digdad: I haven't looked deeply into voting methods either, but just off the top of my head maybe Borda count or some sort of point based system would allow us to divide the votes into smaller elections? Actually on second thought a point system could be used to replace the entire vote... Each person rates every SR/TJ song on a scale of 0 to 10, we then use the average score to rank the songs. Earlier today, I was thinking along similar lines, but in the context of making it practical to use the Schulze/Condorcet vote for the entire SR/TJ discography. I was thinking about devising a point system to help each voter rank the entire catalogue, which can then be used as inputs to the Condorcet vote. Now I wonder if we would get a different ranking if we just sorted the songs by their average scores vs using each voters score as inputs to the Condorcet vote... Maybe I'm just making things complicated, but I was considering for the point system to get the voters to judge each songs using multiple criteria such as: innovativeness, instrumentation, vocal, lyrics (would be hard for us) etc. I am not very experienced in thinking critcally about music... anyone has any suggestions in this regard? I agree that if we just wanted to provide data for the purpose of this thread, doing something like a top 5/bottom 5 vote would save a lot of work over the above methods. P.S. so far 5 people have voted... perhaps there is a way to notify EMF members of the existence of a poll through email... Last edited by D.K.Liu : 2009.02.07 at 06:32 AM. Reason: update on the poll |
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