Sunday, June 25, 2006

A note on scoring

When Holt and I were scoring this week, we had two difficult decisions to make:

There was a photo of Janet Jackson, and in the background was a blow-up of the Us Weekly magazine on which she was on the cover, which also featured an inset of Jennifer Aniston. We weren't sure whether this should count as an Aniston photo.

There was also a photo of Paul McCartney, with an inset of a blow-up of his hand from the original photo. We weren't sure whether this should count as one photo of McCartney or two.

In both the Aniston and the McCartney example, I decided to count both of these as photos. I think it is easier to have a simple bright-line rule for future scoring. So if it is a photo of someone, it counts. (No one had chosen Janet, but had they, it would have counted as two photos of Janet, not just one.)

However, for anyone scoring in the future: advertisements do NOT count. I think that goes without saying, but wanted to make sure everyone knows.

1 Comments:

Blogger A. J. Simon said...

Just for the future (it clearly doesn't matter for me this week), but why wouldn't this also count as a picture of Heather Mills and Paul McCartney?

8:43 PM  

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