The complete normblog polls
Never let it be said that I don't give out praise when it's due. I don't know what it was yesterday in that final entreaty of mine for the movie stars poll, but something there certainly had an effect. The day began on 88 entries, and I am able now to report a final tally of 116. That means the last call yielded an increase in the entry of 30%. Never before in the history of normblog polling has there been such an influx on the last day. So, well done you all! After its slow beginnings, the looming threat of Palookaville, and then the struggle to avoid mere respectability, the movie stars poll has ended by stepping out into the sunlit uplands alongside the several other centurion polls.
This seems like a good moment to give you a complete statistical breakdown of the normblog polls and semi-polls. You won't want to be without this information - in turn, the poll, the date the results were posted, and the size of the entry:
Country music stars (August 19 2003) - 29Greatest jazz albums (October 13 2003) - 45
Alternative big read (November 26 2003) - 105
A rolling stone gathers no moss (January 11 2004) - 25
All-time favourite movies (January 26 2004) - 151
Best-loved Dylan songs (April 6 2004) - 110
Greats of rock n roll (July 18 2004) - 119
Shakespeare's tragedies ranked (August 20 2004) - 39
The greatest songs of rock 'n' roll (February 3 2005) - 230
The great composers (March 13 2005) - 143
Favourite movie stars (June 28 2005) - 116
Favourite English-language poets (November 8 2005) - 120
Top US state names (May 9 2006) - 92
Top 20 musicals (November 9 2006) - 106
The Beatles' best-loved songs (June 14 2007) - 149
Favourite English-language novelists (February 5 2008) - 143
[Last updated February 9 2008.]
