April 30, 2012

Stat of the Week Winner: April 21-27 2012

Due to no entries being posted in last week’s Stat of the Week competition, there is no winner this week. Make sure you add your nominations in for this week’s competition!

Comments

  • avatar
    Nick Iversen

    What makes for a good “Stat of the week”? What do you like to see? An interesting story in the media or an interesting comment on a story in the media? What was wrong with the bunch of nominations one week before Easter where you did not award a prize and there were half a dozen entries?

    I wouldn’t post a nomination just to win the prize. But several times I have been reluctant to post nominations because no one else has and I know that you won’t award a prize if there are fewer than x entries per week.

    Maybe if you published the standard required and awarded the prize every week provided any nominations met the standard you would get more entries.

    If I were running the competition I would call it Comment of the Week and make all comments and nominations eligible. I would set a low bar on comments to encourage more comments and a high bar on the prize to encourage some really good comments.

    12 years ago

    • avatar
      Rachel Cunliffe

      Hi Nick,

      Thanks for the helpful feedback, I’ll take that back to the department.

      We awarded a winner the week I think you’re talking about, just had to wait until everyone was back from Easter break, see here.

      Things have been a little quiet during the Easter break when students were away, I expect they should pick up again now everyone is back.

      Thanks again,
      Rachel

      12 years ago

      • avatar
        Mark B

        Hi Rachel,

        What about the week of march 17-23? It was the only time I’ve submitted. There were several comments. I thought that week was quite interesting because two of us nominated the same herald article and had diametrically opposed views about it. What did all of us do wrong?

        12 years ago

        • avatar
          Rachel Cunliffe

          Oh you make a very good point, that was a bit of an exception that week.

          During that week there was no consensus on who should be the winner and due to time constraints no winner was awarded. We really hope this doesn’t happen again!

          Please do nominate again and we are not against awarding a winner when there’s only one nomination either :)

          12 years ago