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Originally Posted by treadlightly
...I would think that you would have had to read the whole book in order to vote for it. That was why it would be more useful to know how many of the nominees a voter had read rather than gender, education, etc.
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Originally Posted by mandy314
...+1 - should be obligatory in the voting thread(s): "I have read x of the y nominated books for the decade"
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Well, it'd just be more polls but it would be interesting to know, although I think it'd only be useful if it were by decade just like the nominations.
After reading these posts, I was going to suggest that as part of each poll, along with the nominations, Paul could ask us to identify how many books on that particular nomination list we've actually read. Options could be something like 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5-9 and 10+.
This could fit in with the nominations on the same poll in some decades. In other decades it couldn't. In fact, in looking at the numbers per decade to see if it's feasible, I see that (if I've counted correctly) two decades, 1951-1960 and 1961-1970, miraculously have exactly 30 nominations each while two others, 1971-1980 and 1981-1990, each have more than 30 nominations! I wish Paul luck in figuring out how to resolve that for a 30-max poll.