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03/21/2013 07:40:51 AM · #1
In the recent portrait challenges, I waited to vote until the last 40 minutes or so... As such I was unable to spend as much time with each photo or revisit them to adjust votes later...

My speed cost njsabs the blue. Now the shot by alexc is wonderful and I voted it highly (8) as it has the eye candy that you can get at first glance. Cute kid, bright eyes, catchlights, etc... But as the past day or so the winners have been on the front page, my eye has been drawn to the second place shot, which finished very close in score to the blue...

7.2782
7.2707

I remembered not scoring it poorly, but not very high either, so I checked and sure enough it was a 6. Had I had more time to look at it and appreciate the complexity achieved with the minimal ruleset and the wonderful result, I'd have certainly given it at least at 8 (if not higher).

Those two little points lost via rush voting would have switched the results as her score would have been 7.2857.

In fact just ONE point would have given them a tie at 7.2782.

Even worse... had I not voted at all (since I didn't have time to do it properly), she would have had a 7.2803 and alexc a 7.2727.

While I'm sure there were other voters who might have adjusted one way or the other and it's not solely my fault the results, I will try to be more careful in the future and leave more time to vote appropriately so at least I'm doing my part.

Message edited by author 2013-03-21 07:42:17.
03/21/2013 07:58:13 AM · #2
You could look at it more philosophically, from an existentialist viewpoint even.

1) Your posts in rant could have left someone in a good or bad mood right before they voted, altering the outcome.

2) The existence of this thread itself might affect future voting patterns, as it will encourage people to vote earlier and spend longer analyzing the shots.

3) The random selection of shots presented to you during voting would have been presented to someone else in that order had you decided to vote even later than you did. The order of shots might affect voting.

All-in-all I think there are too many variables to conclude that your 2 points by itself made much difference to the result.
03/21/2013 08:02:04 AM · #3
Well, what you say is correct, but it's too easy. There other factors that can be considered in this specific case (and not only):

- who cast higher or lower votes to newborn photos

- who cast higher or lower votes to candid photos

- who cast votes not to every photo or even doesn't cast enough votes to be considered (less than 20%)

- etc. etc.

I have to say that I've been VERY lucky this time, while it happened to me to be 4th and very close other times, and this year quite frequently 11th.

Probably njsabs' photo was better than mine (or at least I think it's better) but it happens all the time. Taking much care to our votes
it's surely a very good point Kevin.

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