Cherry Blossom Season
DC
Adventure
How do you enjoy them?
How decisive were these results?
TL;DR: this crowd wants a peaceful walk, not a photo-op scrum — Activity (Walk or Stroll over Picnic, 28–7) and Vibe (Less Busy over Peak Bloom, 29–8) are this week’s two biggest blowouts. Time of day was the softest opinion — Morning Enjoyment led Golden Hour 21–14, the only question that isn’t clearly distinguishable from a 50/50 split.
| question | N | Leader (votes) | Trailer (votes) | Leader share | Margin (votes) | Margin (points) | p vs 50/50 | Leader 95% CI | Votes to flip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activity | 35 | Walk or Stroll (28) | Picnic (7) | 80.0% | 21 | 60.0% | 0.000508 | [0.63, 0.92] | 11 |
| Color | 30 | Classic Pink Blossoms (22) | White Yoshino Blossoms (8) | 73.3% | 14 | 46.7% | 0.016100 | [0.54, 0.88] | 8 |
| Location | 38 | Tidal Basin (25) | National Arboretum (13) | 65.8% | 12 | 31.6% | 0.073000 | [0.49, 0.80] | 7 |
| Time | 35 | Morning Enjoyment (21) | Golden Hour (14) | 60.0% | 7 | 20.0% | 0.311000 | [0.42, 0.76] | 4 |
| Vibe | 37 | Less Busy/Before or after peak (29) | Peak Color/Bloom (8) | 78.4% | 21 | 56.8% | 0.000753 | [0.62, 0.90] | 11 |
Do the crowd-avoiders and the strollers overlap?
“I’d rather come before or after peak bloom” and “I’d rather walk than picnic” both sound like the same peaceful, less-crowded kind of cherry blossom outing. Let’s bound the overlap.
Out of 35 overlapping voters, the “peaceful stroller” contingent could be as small as 20 or as large as 28 people (57%–80%), versus roughly 22 (63%) expected if the two preferences were unrelated. Since both options are already crowd favorites on their own, the floor stays high — there’s a good chance most of our peers just want a quiet walk among the blossoms, crowds be damned.