I has a math/statistics question.

I am typing up the results for a survey someone did. They do not seem to be able to explain to me what they want. There is a question where they have asked the respondents to order 10 items with 1 being the one they most want and 10 being the one they least want.

Does anyone know the standard way you would show those results? My instinct is to go all preferential voting, and assign point values to each of the ranks and add them together, but that would obviously work better if 10 was high. And also, that is ten items. But the other way to do it would be to count, for each item, how many 1's, 2's 3's etc it got. But that doesn't seem helpful.

MalwareBytes is awesome. It saved my butt a couple different times.

It's cold and wet in Utah. I should not be hunting for extra blankets in mid-May. The snow in the mountains should be seriously reduced by now, but instead the snow pack is increasing. Can we say floods?

It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't sure that in less than a month it's going to be regularly in the 90s. We need that transition, dammit.

Staying home today. Soaked my feet. My doctor put so much gauze and that flexi bandage stuff on my toe that it took me forever to get the thing off. But I had to use three bandages to cover the thing when I was done soaking it.

What happened to your foot, sumi?

Connie, the weatherman this morning was saying something about the long-term projection models for this summer being chilly and rainy in the Chicago area. At least, that was the impression I had of where he was going with his statement before the anchorwoman cut him off with a "I don't want to hear it!" I did, but couldn't tell him to continue, not being able to communicate via my tv screen.

Question for people who work in non-legal libraries: Is there any chance your library has this book [link] (If so, I will have a follow up question)

Yup, it's beautiful this morning here in Arizona, Connie, but yesterday was snow, hail, sun, rain, lightning. In that order. And followed by a lovely huge moon.

Oh, but I got to see Bullock's orioles at my hummingbird feeder this morning! I don't know if they can actually get anything out of there, so I might need to do a little research and see if I can put the sugar water out some other way. I put out an orange. They're only migratory here, and we usually get them for three or four days, so I want to make the most of it while they're here.

So sorry about your toe, sumi. It sounds seriously painful.

Question for people who work in non-legal libraries

Heh, it took me a second to parse that differently from "illegal libraries."

Perkins, I looked at both my local public library and my campus library, and neither have that book. Sorry!