The Federal Holiday Polls via Twitter
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Though my adopted children were all black to some degree, I had not heard of Juneteenth until yesterday. When I read a little more about it, and the efforts of some to make it a Federal Holiday, I thought, “Okay, if Juneteenth became a Federal Holiday, which other Federal Holiday would likely disappear?”
Now some might ask, “Why not just add another Holiday?” I don’t think there’s a free lunch there — if there is less labor, people would get paid less, and that would affect poor people more than those better off.
Anyway, that made me think of doing a Twitter poll to see what holiday people would be willing to do away with. There are ten holidays and I wanted to make sure that each section of the poll would have a “none of the above” as a possibility.
That meant doing ten little polls with randomized competition among holidays. It was a small challenge to create randomized polls that did not have repeats in the choices for any particular poll, and where none of the ten polls were identical to each other. It’s harder than it seems, but using Excel 2007 I was able to get it done in 20 minutes with aid from the lesser known goal seek command.
All 10 polls are out. I would have done it as one poll, but twitter only allows for four choices, and I wanted to have none of the above as a choice in each poll, so it meant having ten polls with 3 randomized choices each, with no duplicates in choices or polls. Please vote.
— David Merkel (@AlephBlog) June 17, 2020
Note: if you play along with me on these polls, there will be a series of them where each of the ten federal holidays gets equal representation. I’m a quant with expertise in simulation analysis. Part of this is to unscientifically determine the least popular holiday
— David Merkel (@AlephBlog) June 17, 2020
As you can see, one goal of the polling is to unscientifically determine the least popular holiday. There were a few more goals. I thought it would be possible that some might think that Juneteenth and the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. cover similar topics. Would some people suggest a trade of one for the other?
Also, would “none of the above” get a lot of votes? Are people happy with the current situation? That would indirectly answer the question of how much sympathy there is for Juneteenth as a Federal Holiday.
To that end, I ask my readers if they would be willing to vote on these polls.
Which of the following Federal Holidays would you give up in order to make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday? (Choices chosen randomly)
— David Merkel (@AlephBlog) June 17, 2020
Which of the following Federal Holidays would you give up in order to make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday? (Choices chosen randomly 2/10)
— David Merkel (@AlephBlog) June 17, 2020
Which of the following Federal Holidays would you give up in order to make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday? (Choices chosen randomly 3/10)
— David Merkel (@AlephBlog) June 17, 2020
Which of the following Federal Holidays would you give up in order to make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday? (Choices chosen randomly 4/10)
— David Merkel (@AlephBlog) June 17, 2020
Which of the following Federal Holidays would you give up in order to make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday? (Choices chosen randomly 5/10)
— David Merkel (@AlephBlog) June 17, 2020
Which of the following Federal Holidays would you give up in order to make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday? (Choices chosen randomly 6/10)
— David Merkel (@AlephBlog) June 17, 2020
Which of the following Federal Holidays would you give up in order to make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday? (Choices chosen randomly 7/10)
— David Merkel (@AlephBlog) June 17, 2020
Which of the following Federal Holidays would you give up in order to make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday? (Choices chosen randomly 8/10)
— David Merkel (@AlephBlog) June 17, 2020
Which of the following Federal Holidays would you give up in order to make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday? (Choices chosen randomly 9/10)
— David Merkel (@AlephBlog) June 17, 2020
Which of the following Federal Holidays would you give up in order to make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday? (Choices chosen randomly 10/10)
— David Merkel (@AlephBlog) June 17, 2020
I think highly of my readers. I particularly appreciate the way that most of you who choose to comment at my blog are measured in your comments. I don’t have to deal with a lot of off topic or crude comments.
So, if you have a few minutes of time, go ahead and answer the polling questions. I’ll do a post with the results either tomorrow or Friday. Thanks.
PS — the polls cut off in the 2PM hour tomorrow, US Eastern Time.
Source: https://alephblog.com/2020/06/17/the-federal-holiday-polls-via-twitter/
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