Adding Diversity to the Hugo Awards

[daveon]

One of the claims the various puppies have made is they're getting more works into consideration for the Hugo Awards...  I thought this was an interesting claim, especially given the effectiveness of a strong slate, so I thought I'd look at the data.  I can only find details back to 2011, anybody who has links to the earlier nomination data, I'd

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[anonymous]

There are bunch of things that confuse me in this post, but the 2011 Worldcon was in Reno. It was the 2010 Worldcon that was in Australia

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[daveon]

See the latest edits - I have gone back and looked for the unique nominated works in total for each year, not easy because it's not always been tabulated. The numbers for Best Novel seem to remain constant, the Shorts don't.

[despotliz]

I have data going back to 2009 in a spreadsheet, and some stuff back to 2005 in more scattered form - it's all on the pages for each year linked from the Hugo history page

[daveon]

There isn't that much on the total nominations but I've found it for 3 years which was interesting, and I'll pull things out in a later post.

The Novel category stays remarkably consistent in relation to the number of people nominating. That's probably why it's harder to completely game.

The Short Story categories? Yeah, the more people involved the easier it is for a relatively small number of people doing the same thing to own them... that is assuming that the majority are voting according to their interests.

The number of short stories up for consideration is actually going down relative to the number of voters which I wasn't expecting. The Novels are staying more or less the same.

[drplokta]

2013 is also effectively pre-puppy, as their "slate" that year only consisted of one novel by Larry Correia.

[drplokta]

I was wondering about that, but work to increase the number of people nominating had been underway in reaction to the charges of the Hugos being run by a bunch of old men...

I just find it interesting that as near as I can tell, relative to the numbers involved, the range of works was proportionately higher with what I'd describe as the 'core' voters. I suspect we have got more people, but the new people have come with a narrower agenda.

I'll be interested to see the nomination stats for this year and the 'awsom powa' of the 'dread ilk' and the like - I suspect that we'll see the same thing.

[daveon]

That was me that was, not paying attention.