From: jkonghsu@ocf.berkeley.edu (James Kong Hsu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Top Idols (Ultimate Results!)
Date: 3 Oct 1992 01:49:52 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu


It is finally here! The ultimate idols list from the internet!
There was a total of 22 respondents.  We based the point system
on two criteria listed below:

1.) The order of votes that people gave.

    We assumed that people gave their list in order of favorite, second
    favorite, third favorite and so on.  Everyone's first choice received
    five points, their second, four points and so on.  (Although some
    people casted less than five votes we still gave their first choice
    starting with five points and so on.)

2.) The number of votes each idol received.

    We multiplied the total number of votes each idol received 
    by three and added it to the total number of points.  This is done
    to even out those idols who appeared on many people's lists but 
    were not near the top so their rankings fell behind those idols
    who were voted once and appeared on the top of someone's list.
    (Note that this criteria is counted much more heavily than 
    the first criteria simply because we believe that a person
    appearing on the top five lists of two voters should be ranked
    higher than a person appearing on the list of one voter. Note
    also that a person who appears number one once will have the
    same number of points as a person appearing number five twice.)
    For Noriko Sakai, for example, 55 points was obtained by the following
    calculation: (8 votes times 3) + (4 first place votes times 5) + 
    (1 second place vote times 4) + (1 third place vote times 3) +
    (2 fourth place votes times 2) = 24+20+4+3+4 = 55 points

                             # of votes per place
Rank     Name    #of votes   1  2  3  4  5         Total points 
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1  Sakai, Noriko       8     4  1  1  2  0           55
2  Kudoh, Shizuka      8     1  3  1  3  0           50  
3  Nakamori, Akina     7     2  2  2  1  0           47  
4  Moritaka, Chisato   5     3  0  1  0  1           34  
5  Nishida, Hikaru     5     2  1  0  2  0           33  
6  Miyazawa, Rie       5     1  1  2  0  1           31  
7  Nakayama, Miho      4     1  2  0  0  1           26  
8  Ishida, Hikari      4     1  0  1  1  1           23  
-  Suzuki, Honami      5     0  0  1  1  3           23 
10 Koizumi, Kyoko      3     1  1  0  0  1           19
-  Makise, Riho        3     0  2  0  1  0           19  
12 Minamino, Yoko      3     0  0  2  1  0           17  
13 Asaka, Yui          3     0  0  1  0  2           14  
-  Goto, Kumiko        2     0  2  0  0  0           14   
-  Kikuchi, Momoko     2     1  0  1  0  0           14   
-  Okui, Kaori         3     0  0  1  0  2           14    
17 Asano, Yuko         2     1  0  0  1  0           13    
18 Tanaka, Misako      2     0  0  2  0  0           12  
19 Kato, Reiko         2     0  0  1  0  1           10   
20 Nakajima, Tomoko    1     1  0  0  0  0            8   
-  Sakaguchi, Ryoko    1     1  0  0  0  0            8  
-  Sugimoto, Aya       1     1  0  0  0  0            8  
-  Terada, Keiko       1     1  0  0  0  0            8  
-  Tomita, Yasuko      1     1  0  0  0  0            8  
25 Ishida, Yukari      1     0  1  0  0  0            7  
-  Ishida, Yuriko      1     0  1  0  0  0            7   
-  Masuda, Seiko       1     0  1  0  0  0            7   
-  Nakamura, Ayumi     1     0  1  0  0  0            7   
-  Senou, Azusa        1     0  1  0  0  0            7  
-  Takahashi, Yumiko   1     0  1  0  0  0            7   
-  Wakui, Emi          1     0  1  0  0  0            7  
32 Nishimura, Tomomi   1     0  0  1  0  0            6  
-  Saitoh, Yuki        1     0  0  1  0  0            6   
-  Sawaguchi, Yasuko   1     0  0  1  0  0            6   
-  Watanabe, Marina    1     0  0  1  0  0            6  
36 Arimori, Narimi     1     0  0  0  1  0            5   
-  Imai, Miki          1     0  0  0  1  0            5   
-  Nakae, Yuri         1     0  0  0  1  0            5  
-  Nakayama, Shinobu   1     0  0  0  1  0            5  
-  Suzuki, Sachiko     1     0  0  0  1  0            5  
41 Chiharu             1     0  0  0  0  1            4  
-  Esaki, Mari         1     0  0  0  0  1            4  
-  Karashima, Midori   1     0  0  0  0  1            4   
-  Nakahara, Meiko     1     0  0  0  0  1            4  
-  Ogawa, Noriko       1     0  0  0  0  1            4   

If you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to 
reply.            
    Thank you for your votes and interest.