Touhou MAMA Project
Hello and welcome to the results of the Most Awful Mother Award (MAMA): the quest to find the worst moms in Touhou.
By collecting 46,279 votes from 122 users, I ranked each Touhou character by how much people did or did not want them as a mother, as inspired by the infamous dril tweet. Each vote involved being forced to choose between two random character on which you would prefer to be your mom someday.
The results are presented below, starting with highlights of the top and bottom 10, and ending with the complete results and some afterthoughts. Enjoy!
Afterthoughts
Overall, this project went far better than I anticipated. I had expected far less interest and far more technical issues. That said, there is definite room for improvement. First on the list is improving the voting algorithm. The one used for this project ended up being fairly inefficient, since it didn't prune out any matchups that had implied results (for example, if "A" is better than "B" and "B" is better than "C", you don't necessarily need to ask about "A" vs "C").
There are a few reasons I did it this way. First, it was simpler; in addition to being easy to write, I didn't need to record each match-up's results, just the overall winners and losers. Second, I didn't expect people to actually try to vote in every match. If each user only voted 50-100 times like I expected, pruning is not hugely relevent. Since many users were far more dedicated, the difference became quite obvious. This will be taken into account for future projects