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You've found the EastBayRag vote page. Here, you get the opportunity to let us know what you think. Each week, we will have votes on important issues. Well, probably not important issues, more like trivial things that come to mind on a Sunday morning after a belly full of beer from a Saturday night.

After the votes are in, EBR will provide in depth analysis of the results so you can find out if you are running with the crowd or if you're out there on your own. You never know, you may even learn something, but that's highly unlikely. Oh! And the cool thing before I forget, the graphs update as you vote ...... Wow! And what's more, the colors are allocated randomly, so each time you refresh the page, you will see different colors on the graphs. (F5 is normally the shortcut key to refresh, but may depend on your browser.) Go on .... try it.

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This week’s question

One of the last things that Mr O did whilst he was here was to help me put up a new bird feeder (with the snappy title of “The Snack Shack”). What was the first animal to feed on the bird food in the snack shack?

Pick your answer from the following:

Chestnut-backed Chickadee
House Finch
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Plain Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Scrub Jay
Stellar's Jay
Squirrel

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Discussion on Current Vote:

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Analysis of Last Week's Vote

The following question was presented:

I have to say that I've been quite taken in by the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, however, I'm not 100% sure as to which country won. The US seem to look at all medals made equal and perform a simple medal count (not because this puts them at the top, this is how they look at the summer games too). As I understand it, the UK ranks the countries based on the number of gold medals only. I seem to remember that there was a points system that allotted 3 points for a gold medal, 2 points for a silver medal and 1 point for a bronze medal. This isn't a trick question. The medal count is as follows:

CountryGoldSilverBronzeTotal MedalsTotal Points
USA915133770
Germany101373063
Canada14752661

How do you think the winning country in the Olympics should be decided?

Results:

Points system (3 points for gold; 2 for silver; 1 for bronze) was the clear winner with 67% of the votes selected from the following:

Total number of medals (0%)
Total number of gold medals only (33%)
Points system (3 points for gold; 2 for silver; 1 for bronze) (67%)
Other (0%)

Pre-Result Discussion

Mr O
00:14:56
1st March 2010		The number of golds is taken first, if tied, then number of silvers, and if still tied, number of bronze, if all three are tied then the countries are tied in whichever position on the medal table, kind of like the points system but not.

Analysis:

I have to say that I prefer the points system as I just can't see that treating all medals as equal makes sense given that the objective is to win and get gold. There were also a few votes for only counting the gold medals - I do wonder whether this is truly what those voters believe or if it's just a vote against the US as that would mean that Canada won .... which they did .... in overtime if I remember correctly. Anyway, points system it is.

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