I made this graph showing The Colonel’s Bar Boy Index. Based on exhausting field research by The Colonel, the index shows “tip” inflation the last 18 years, with samples taken from the Suriwong area in Bangkok.
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March 21st, 2006 at 9:05 pm
I assume that performance has trippled during the same period of time, right?
-Former Farang
March 21st, 2006 at 9:32 pm
May we know the sample sizes for the Colonel’s research please?
I note that you refer to the research being “exhausting”.
This could well indicate a large sample… or possibly that the aircon wasnt working.
In particular, may we see the Colonel’s report in respect of:
1)One-way and two-way variances (or three and four if he went that far)
2)Bi-modal distribution (pardon the expression but - did he come across any?)
3)Comparison of proportions (some diagrams would be interesting)
4)Frequency distributions (or is that too personal?)
5) The Two-tailed test (thats always an interesting one)
6) Line of best fit (leading to…)
7)The Point of inflection !
8) Standard deviations (or kinky ones)
9)Tally marks, and finally
10)The F-test (ahem).
All in the interest of statistical analysis of course.
March 22nd, 2006 at 6:50 am
The Colonel deserves praise for his selfless contribution to social research.
Former Farang has a valid question about the price-performance ratio. I have another question: are the bar boys who are sampled the same ones all these years? They must be getting long in the tooth. I would think a discount is in order.
IwanUK is pointing The Colonel in the direction of an advanced paper on this subject, perhaps worthy of a Ph.D in economics. And then there is the Nobel Prize to collect in Stockholm.