The Feature Formerly Known As Friday Canon: Prince

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

By a kind of popular demand, here is the hugest Friday Canon yet, dedicated to the Purple One (now on a comeback tip I hear), Prince. Of course because the Friday Canon deals with UK top 40 hits, some of his best songs can't make it here (I'm particularly sad not to see "Dirty Mind") but there's plenty here to be going on with. Inventor of textspeak, and by some reckonings the most talented man of the 80s - by the one-third rule you get THIRTEEN picks across his career: use them wisely.




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Comments

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I voted in this one. I don't like this "one third rule" tho. Or rather I think the mental exercise involved in POV is better. It was easy to settle on a final 13 in this case.

Have the stats geeks proven by maths that you generate a better consensus with this rule or something?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No not at all - in this case because of the huge tail-off in quality 13 is on the high side - but generally you get more differentiation with this number of choices, and less things tie-ing.

what's wrong with ties?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

bah you and your anti-tie thing ;)

Re: what's wrong with ties?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

They cut off blood to one's head.