Re: POLL RESULTS: What is the action that produces a Verifiable Presentation?

This is fun.  Thanks, Manu, for putting this together and sharing the
results!  Now I know that I think similarly to most people in the community
:)

Sincerely,
Harrison

On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 7:22 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 5:01 PM Manu Sporny wrote:
> > We are going to close this poll at the end of this week (12pm midnight
> > PT Friday).
>
> Alright, you nerds (I say that in the most positive and loving way
> possible)... 90 of you registered your opinion on the question: "What
> is the action that produces a Verifiable Presentation?".
>
> That's a huge voter turn out to determine the selection of a single
> word... you can't say this community doesn't care about terminology.
> :P
>
> Here are the results (screenshot attached):
>
> https://www.opavote.com/results/6203261324361728
>
> The anonymized ballots are all viewable at the link above as well.
>
> ------
> What is the action that produces a Verifiable Presentation?
>
> There are 12 candidates competing for 1 seat. The number of voters is 91
> and
> there were 90 valid votes and 1 empty votes. Counting votes using Borda
> Count.
>
> Candidate | Count
> =================
>    create |   551
>     issue |   227
>      sign |   169
>   prepare |   385
>   present |   273
>  assemble |   385
>     prove |   115
>    derive |   205
>   produce |   446
>  generate |   507
>    render |   143
>   compose |   552
> Exhausted |  1982
>
> Borda count totals.
> ------
>
> While the "winner" is the word "compose"... as in, you /compose/ a
> Verifiable Presentation, and then you /present/ it... compose "won" by
> a margin of a single Borda Count point, which is statistically
> insignificant given the population and number of people voting.
>
> The top 4 choices were (in order): compose, create, generate, and produce
>
> The next steps are to put the poll results in front of the VCWG for
> determining the rationale of what goes in the specification and why,
> driven by the data we were able to gather in the poll.
>
> Thank you to everyone that participated in the poll, it really helps
> to use data-based approaches among an expert community when
> determining terminology!
>
> -- manu
>
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