{"id":538,"date":"2008-10-07T17:38:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T00:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/?p=538"},"modified":"2008-10-07T17:45:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T00:45:42","slug":"and-the-winner-is-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is …."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, so I counted your votes for which art print to enter in the Reedley Fiesta<\/a>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And here’s the good news: YOUR VOTES REALLY COUNTED.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 You changed my mind as I considered which print to use.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I really appreciate your thoughtful responses.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And of course I’m flattered by the feedback you left.<\/p>\n

Counting such thoughtful feedback presented a methodology problem, namely: how do I quantify your opinions and preferences to make an accurate data representation of your collective feelings?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s what I decided to do: each person’s main vote (i.e. “I think you should enter this image…”) was assigned the weight of two votes.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Each secondary vote (i.e. “…but I also liked numbers 2 and 3”) was weighted with one vote.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Using this method, I used Google Docs and Spreadsheets<\/a> to tally up your votes.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 G Docs spit out a beautiful chart for me.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Without further ado (there’s been far too much ado about this point), here are the results:<\/p>\n

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Just for kicks, here’s a review of the photos again, so you can compare them with the results:<\/p>\n

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As I stated above, you truly did swing my decision on this issue. At first, I was only going to consider the Av Gas picture (#5, the last one) for submission. When it garnered no votes at all, I knew it was right out. The photo I would have chosen as my favorite was #3, the skyscape above Reedley. #1, the vineyard picture, which was taken east of Reedley near Orange Cove, would have been my third choice. Photo #2, taken at the beach, I judge to be a spectacular image. But for some reason it holds very little personal connection for me, so I just threw it in as a red herring to see if anyone would vote for it. Several people did.<\/p>\n

That leaves image #4, the Water Tower picture. This would have been my second choice, but it was your overwhelming favorite. I realize that as both the artist and the blogger, I could have overridden your judgment. But I decided not to. I asked for your opinion, and you gave it to me in spades. It’s in honor of your effort and feedback that I chose this as my second entry in the Reedley Fiesta art show. Thank you, dear readers.<\/p>\n

If you’re able, please stop by the Bank of America lobby in Reedley this weekend (Friday from 3pm – 9pm and Saturday from 9am – 5pm) to see this and my other art piece on display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, so I counted your votes for which art print to enter in the Reedley Fiesta.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And here’s the good news: YOUR VOTES REALLY COUNTED.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 You changed my mind as I considered which print to use.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I really appreciate your thoughtful responses.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 And of course I’m flattered by the feedback you left. Counting such thoughtful … Continue reading And the winner is ….<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[235,230,236,337,234],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-art-print","tag-fiesta","tag-navel-gazing","tag-photos","tag-votes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdZlL-8G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}