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> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Dave Neary" <dne...@maemo.org>
> To: "List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org>
> Subject: Belated survey results
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:12:33 +0100
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> The survey for the special characters on your keyboard finished last
> week. After the election, looking at the votes, there were some
> particularities which made generating useful results a little tricky:
>
> * '(' got by far the most votes, and ')' came 8th or 9th on first
> preferences - but got by far the most 2nd preferences. It was clear
many
> people voted '(' and ')' 1 and 2 in that order
> * Some characters got a large number of first preference votes, but
> almost no follow-on preferences (Euro, pound and pipe)
> * There is no election - so deciding how many seats to allocate for a
> transferable vote was nonsensical at worst, useless at best.
>
> So - exceptionally, for the survey, I decided to use the Borda count.
> This gives a good approximation of the order of preference people have.
>
> Here's how it works: With 14 candidates, a number 1 preference is worth
> 13 points, a number 2 is worth 12 points, and so on - a number 14 or no
> vote at all are both worth 0. By adding the number of points across all
> ballots, we get a good idea of who appeared higher on the preferences.
>
> Without further ado, here are the results:
>
> http://maemo.org/vote/results.php?election_id=8
>
> In order of preference:
>
> Char Score
> '(' 13673
> ')' 12807
> '&' 10602
> '=' 10025
> '_' 8824
> '$' 8604
> '<' 8358
> '>' 8335
> '|' 8267
> '%' 7683
> '\' 6658
> '~' 6375
> '€' 4648
> '£' 2165
>
> The results need to be taken with a pinch of salt - and perhaps
examined
> more closely. There was no residency information which might have shown
> how important the pound sign is to UK residents, or the euro sign to
> (other) EU residents.
>
> You can download the votes and play with them yourself at
> http://maemo.org/vote/blt.php?election_id=8 and read about reproducing
> the results at
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo.org_team/Generating_election_results
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
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> maemo.org docsmaster
> Email: dne...@maemo.org
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Thanks for the update Dave.
It's just a shame there is no universal "currency" character.� Such a
think could be inked onto a single key, and software language/region
settings could be used to determine the default character produced when
it was pressed.� Alternate currency characters could then be produced by
key cycling, combo presses�or somesuch.
Eh, probably too complicated...
Randall (Randy) Arnold
maemo.org community council
http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/
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