Results of the Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey

Rob Weir has posted an analysis of the logo contest recently held for Apache OpenOffice. The main blog post showcases the leading vote-getters, but the real meat comes in the detailed report, which breaks down the survey by demographics and examines various ways of interpreting what boils down to a set of individual personal preferences. "With an ordinal interpretation we can look at histograms (counts of scores), at the mode (most frequent response), median (the middle value) and the variation ratio (fraction of scores not in the mode). With an interval interpretation we would assign each point on the scale a numeric value, e.g., 1 for Strongly Dislike to 5 for Strongly Like. Then we could take these scores and calculate means and standard deviations." The logo-selection process now moves to revisions by the leading candidates, aiming for the upcoming 4.0 release.