Well, i had partially accounted for the methodology, as that's how most of these lists are compiled, but i didn't necessarily account for the sample population. However, i was assuming "no covers unless they're definitive" ("Respect" & "Hound Dog") in the same way Y100's album countdown typically leads with "no compilations or best ofs, unless they're definitive" (Bob Marley "Legend").

That said, the Beatles did represent about half of a recent Rolling Stone Best Albums poll top ten - I would be shocked not to see it happen here. However, I don't think Bob would necessarily rank that many songs at the top if a different population was polled, but a glance at their sample page has all sorts of Dylan songs i don't know in top tens.

This is, of course, why i rarely put any faith in scientific polling that samples such a fractional amount of a population, no matter how carefully or randomly selected; i would wager that a truely representative poll of music lovers (and, be sure, this isn't a critics poll, they haev musicians right next to traffic reporters) around the country would *probably* yield less top-ranked Dylan in favor of more commercially successful singles in the vein of "Respect" and "Satisfaction" in the same way that any idiot knew that Buffy the Vampire Slayer was being watched by a hell of a lot more people than Neilsen said it was.

Ahh, grad school, how she beckons me.