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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> reading-group <reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org> on behalf of Louis Galvez III <nesfalou@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 13, 2021 8:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NESFA Reading Group <reading-group@lists.nesfa.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [nesfa-reading-group] Selected Reading Group Books for May, June, July & August, 2021</font>
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<div dir="auto">Hey, <br>
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A note on the below weighted votes. <br>
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In general, people assume that whatever receives the highest total is the winner. But if I had simply added up all the votes as I received them (1 for most preferred and 12 for least preferred), the Doris Lessing book would have shown up with the lowest number.
To avoid having the book with the lowest total declared the winner, I weighted the results. If you gave a book a ranking of 1 (that you would most like to read and discuss it), it’s reflected in the below screenshot as a 12. A 2 shows up as an 11. After that,
it’s turtles all the way down. That way, after the new weighted votes were added up, the book with the highest total would be declared the winner. <br>
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<div name="x_messageReplySection">On Mar 13, 2021, 7:28 AM -0500, Louis Galvez III <nesfalou@gmail.com>, wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Hey, <br>
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The votes are in!<br>
The selections have been made!<br>
The books we’ll be discussing in May, June, July, & August are:<br>
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May: <strong><em>Kingdoms of Elfin</em></strong> by Silvia Townsand Warner<br>
June: <strong><em>The Humans</em></strong> by Matt Haig<br>
July: <strong><em>Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta</em></strong> by Doris Lessing<br>
August: <strong><em>Children of Ruin</em></strong> by Adrian Tchaikovsky<br>
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The votes in the screenshot below have been transposed from preferred order of selection from the Google Form into weighted votes, which were used to tally the results. <br>
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The respondents email addresses were replaced with a random number (randomized by an excel function) and reordered from the order the submissions were received into the lowest to highest number sequence below. <br>
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The months were chosen randomly (randomized by an excel function) <br>
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