----- Original Message ----- From: <MichaelHughes7A@xxxxxxx> > Congratulations on your initiative and for your sucess in getting so many > responses. With the benefits that flow from 20:20 hindsight I would suggest that > you may well have to discount some of the responses as being a humourous > reaction to a task which to some may have lacked a relevant purpose or had been > bewildered. (a bit like the collections of strange answers to exam > questions like who flew the first heavier than air aircraft - Pontius Pilot) Hey, I submited it to Australians, of *course* I figured i'd get my share of inane responses! :) > My personal reaction was to consider the positioning of the flower as > irrelevant because of the relative size of the flower and the frame. There we go, another complicating factor ;) I wanted to keep it as simple as possible, and smaller/larger flowers complicated things a bit. Relative sizes in this instance 'balanced' to my eye (!) > If I were tempted to contrive a similar survey I might suggest to > respondents that they placed the image in the frame and I would give them the freedom > to use any size of image they prefered. that's a lot beyond my skills as a computer user, and interpreting individual responses would have proved difficult (4.712x image size, 44 pixels left, 12 up.. ?) > PS I fear that the Klingon dialect used was misunderstood - the announcement > was simply 'The giant sunflower season has arrived' However the message was > subliminal. nasty! good thing no one took it seriously or we'da had a panic! k