{"id":904,"date":"2014-04-07T10:43:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/?p=904"},"modified":"2014-04-07T10:43:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:43:32","slug":"baby-name-vote-faq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2014\/baby-name-vote-faq\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Name Vote FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.\u00a0What does the money go toward?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For every $1 donated, Save the Children<\/a> can provide one complete polio vaccination course for a child. \u00a0\u00a0Save the Children is an international children\u2019s charity that works in many countries around the world, and we asked them to create a campaign for early childhood medical care. \u00a0I think this is a really great cause to support because it is one of the most efficient ways to help<\/a> with the amount of money we are able to give. \u00a0My wife is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who has seen how important early childhood medical care is, first hand.<\/p>\n

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2. So, no matter what happens, you are going to use the top-voted name for your son?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been on the Internet waaaay too long to make a promise like that. \u00a0We\u2019re not going to burden our son with a name like Mr. Splashy Pants or Marblecake. \u00a0We will definitely use the votes to narrow down our choices, and I am a big geek so I will be doing a bunch<\/a> of statistical analysis<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

3. What\u2019s the timeline?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The poll launched April 7th, we\u2019ll be keeping it open for a couple of weeks. \u00a0The baby is due May 19th.<\/p>\n

4. What are the names?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll have to go to the poll and vote<\/a> to see them :)<\/p>\n

5. How does my vote become a donation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

All you have to do is vote, and we\u2019ll take care of it. \u00a0Between my wife and I, a group of generous Googlers, and Google\u2019s amazing employee matching program, we have pledges to donate up to $14,000. \u00a0\u00a0If we don\u2019t get enough votes to \u201cuse up\u201d all the pledges, I\u2019ll let the Googlers who pledged above the vote amount decide if they\u2019d like to still donate. \u00a0You can also go to this OneToday campaign and contribute $1 of your own<\/a>.<\/p>\n

6. Are you crazy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Actually, this worked surprisingly well last time. \u00a0It blew up into a big sensation mostly by accident and overall the response was very positive. \u00a0I\u2019m an Anti-abuse Engineer at Google, so I was ready for a fair amount of spamming and abuse. \u00a0It ended up being less than I expected – most people thought it was fun to vote and suggest names. \u00a0I don\u2019t know exactly how things will go once we launch, but I\u2019m somewhere between \u201creasonably optimistic\u201d and \u201cuncomfortably excited.\u201d \u00a0I\u2019m also really hopeful that many voters will decide to join us with a small donation<\/a> of their own, so we can raise as much money to help children as possible.<\/p>\n

7. What name won last time?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Olivia got the most votes, but we ended up naming our daughter Athena. \u00a0Why? \u00a0As we got 1000s of votes, I noticed that the order of names in our poll was becoming very similar to the order just by popularity in the previous year. \u00a0That\u2019s not very interesting, so I did a linear regression to find the names<\/a> that were voted for more in my poll than could be explained by popularity in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1.\u00a0What does the money go toward? For every $1 donated, Save the Children can provide one complete polio vaccination course for a child. \u00a0\u00a0Save the Children is an international children\u2019s charity that works in many countries around the world, and we asked them to create a campaign for early childhood medical care. \u00a0I think this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[614,728,730,80,462,729,610],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-baby-name","tag-charity","tag-faq","tag-google","tag-poll","tag-save-the-children","tag-vote"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}