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april 01, 2004
Memetisk analys av röstningar i Schlagerfestivalen
I artikeln Birth of a Meme: the Origin and Evolution of Collusive Voting Patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest av Derek Gatherer görs en memetisk analys av röstningarna i schagerfestivalen (Eurovision Song Contest). Artikeln är publicerad i Journal of Memetics.
Man hittar, inte förvånande, olika röstningskluster, t.ex. "The Axes of Britain", "The Maltese Cross" och "The Viking Empire".
Such classification is merely whimsical, but the basic fact remains that statistically significant reciprocal voting does tend to have a geographically non-random distribution, and in four of the five clusters, to be suggestive of older historical alliances (the "Maltese Cross" being the only exception). The question now is: can we apply memetics to this situation and if so, how?
De svenska röstningsrelationerna till Danmark och Island kommenteras speciellt.
A slightly more complex pattern is seen when considering Sweden and Denmark in Figure 3. On the first three occasions, no points were awarded by either side, but from 1981 Denmark took the lead in awarding increasingly high points to Sweden. 1990 saw a sudden withdrawal of points by Denmark, but the relationship recovered immediately. Figure 4 shows the relationship between Iceland and Sweden. Initial high marks from Iceland produced little or no Swedish response, and the Icelandic vote gradually declined in the late 80s. However, the position then seems to have reversed with Sweden taking the lead in high voting for Iceland.
Slutsatsen:
In summary, it can be seen that:
1. the Eurovision Song Contest is a purely cultural phenomenon - there is no biological selective advantage associated with winning or losing.
2. Nevertheless, behaviour has evolved to share votes in mutually beneficial partnerships, often with one country taking a lead in courting another..
3. Many more of these have sprung up in recent years (see Table 1), as new countries join the contest, adopting almost immediately the process that has evolved gradually among the long-standing members.
Noter:
Data är tagen och bearbetad från Eurovision Song Contests Statistics, Charts
De senaste numret av Journal of Memetics: Volume 8, Issue 1 - March 2004
Läs även A. Bradley Duthie: The Fork and the Paperclip: A Memetic Perspective
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