The Voting Thread - Page 4

Brian Watson · #31 03-04-2010, 10:09 PM

1. Station
2. Carthage

Spindleshanks · #32 03-05-2010, 02:26 AM

1. Sparrows
2. Salting fields

Cally Conan-Davies · #33 03-05-2010, 03:40 AM

First place is easy; second, much harder!

1. Stations: On Bloomfield

2. mmmmmm - Sparrows (because I love things that endure)

B.J. Preston · #34 03-05-2010, 04:20 AM

1) station (On Bloomfield)

2) blank (Minimalism)

as I weigh it on this day...

Jerome Betts · #35 03-05-2010, 04:29 AM

1. Sparrows
2.Carthage

Maryann Corbett · #36 03-05-2010, 06:03 AM

Continuing thanks to all. I'm posting here to record that this is where I stopped counting for the numbers I'm about to post. There's nothing to prevent you from voting after this if you want to!

Janice D. Soderling · #37 03-05-2010, 01:11 PM

I have to admit that I am a little dismayed that there are no women among the winners. I am aware that Wendy judged "blind", so that is not in any way a slur on her. (Gotta state the obvious or some argument-lover will come rushing hoping to get a free-for-all going.)

I am dismayed nonetheless and am pondering why it might be that all the finalists were male. I'm guessing that of the 80 entrants at least half were female. Or is it the case that the guys sent in their poems and the gals didn't? Ponder, ponder, ponder.

Roger Slater · #38 03-05-2010, 01:27 PM

Janice, I think they were all Americans, too, but I lack the data to do a complete analysis in terms of age, politics, religion and sexual orientation.

Janice D. Soderling · #39 03-05-2010, 02:32 PM

Hey, I didn't notice they were all from the US. As for the rest, the population is too small to break it down further. I think.

Though I would like to know what they eat for breakfast. Wheaties?

Michael Cantor · #40 03-05-2010, 04:36 PM

Janice - if you think that half the entrants should have been female, I'd like to play poker with you some day.

Just look at our active membership. This is a rough indicator, but I checked the poems on each of our Boards going back 20 days (I didn't count the notices posted by Maryann about this contest.) The Deep End is 27/4 male/female. Metrical is 22/5. Only FV is remotely close, at 28/19. (I skipped one name I didn't know and couldn't categorize.) The total is 77/28 male/female. It's probably skewed male because I counted multiple posts, and guys seem to post every week more aggressively than women (there's a doctoral thesis in there), but factor in also the fact that the poems tend to be longer in FV, where most of the female members posted, and we have more new members - who are less likely to enter a contest - and I bet that contest partiicipation was between 2/1 and 3/1 male. Maybe Maryann could provide actual numbers.