In 2004, a 3:2:1 system was used by the Australian Geography Teachers Association.[37] This weighting values a gold medal as much weight as a silver and a bronze medal combined. In response to the 2008 controversy over medal rank, Jeff Z. Klein in a New York Times blog post proposed a 4:2:1 system as a compromise between the total-medals and golds-first methods.[38] These systems have been popular in certain places at certain times, but none of them have been adopted on a large scale.