Friday, June 29, 2007
THE METHOD
This is the second annual Best of 225 Awards, and it’s no ordinary best-of list.
We began months ago by asking readers to nominate their favorite places, people and events in more than 60 categories. We tweaked last year’s categories to keep things fresh. Your response was overwhelming; we counted more than 33,000 individual nominations.
We tallied the top nominees by category, then turned the information over to Baton Rouge market research firm Survey Communications Inc.
S.C.I. conducted a random-sample survey from April 23 to May 6 from a database of more than 24,000 people with e-mail addresses. S.C.I. randomly asked 7,500 people to complete our survey.
A total of 1,817 people responded, a 24% response rate. (88 respondents were disqualified because they said they didn’t live within the 225 area code). In the end, a total of 1,729 people completed the questionnaire.
Winners got the most votes in their category, and the top two runners-up are listed in order of votes received.
Comments
Posted by augustsmommy on July 18, 2007 at 8:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Just a suggestion....I LOVE the Best Of, but how about a category for Baton Rouge's best Hair Salon???? My vote is for the Atelier Rouge in the new Hilton downtown...ITS FAB!!
Hope I didnt over look that category, but I am pretty sure I didnt. Thanks!
Posted by benrecord on April 9, 2008 at 8:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
how about not do a sampling but let us all vote on the best of...i like the idea for nominations, but then exclude us from the final???
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