{"id":932,"date":"2008-05-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=932"},"modified":"2008-05-08T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T13:00:00","slug":"off-topic-voting-on-tv-a-basic-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/05\/off-topic-voting-on-tv-a-basic-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Off topic: Voting on TV &#8211; a basic problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">C<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">hannel 4<\/span>\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/4homes\/ontv\/grand-designs\/Grand-Designs-Live-2008\/gd-vote-terms.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Grand Designs Live<\/span><\/a>, is built around asking viewers to vote on three properties. Here is the problem: the first property featured has a massive advantage over the last property in terms of motivating people to vote.<\/p>\n<p>[<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Updated<\/span>] <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Two<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">three<\/span> four nights out of <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">three<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">four<\/span> five, the first property featured has won&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Can Channel 4 not come up with a less obviously flawed method?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 4\u2019s Grand Designs Live, is built around asking viewers to vote on three properties. Here is the problem: the first property featured has a massive advantage over the last property in terms of motivating people to vote. [Updated] Two three four nights out of three four five, the first property featured has won&#8230; Can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[231,61],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-channel-4","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}