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Haycat2009 wrote: September 4th, 2024, 10:34 amJust a question: Who voted most similarly to each other, and who voted most differently from each other?

I remember Macbi doing us such a search - it would be lovely to find out.

Good idea.

Bellwether: wpolly
Iconoclast: confocaloid (second year running!)

Most similar tastes: wpolly and erictom333
Most divergent tastes: yoleo and confocaloid

Most correlation between patterns: 'Crotchet ship pseudo-Heisenburp' and 'New wickstretchers'
Most anticorrelation between patterns: 'Cribbage' and 'Smaller solution to the Unique father problem'

What do bellweather and iconoclast mean?

LuveelVoom wrote: September 3rd, 2025, 10:47 am What do bellweather and iconoclast mean?

A bellwether is an indicator of trends, so probably the person who voted most similarly to what everyone else did, and an iconoclast is someone who challenges widely accepted beliefs, so probably the person who voted the most differently to everyone else.