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Funny stats from my town

It's a costal town, no snow, a lot of rainy days.

Here is a car model, a counter, and the percentage of total cars.

SUBARU -> 1 0.00086497707810743 SUBARU B9 TRIBECA -> 2 0.00172995415621486 SUBARU FORESTER -> 24 0.0207594498745783 SUBARU G3X JUSTY -> 4 0.00345990831242972 SUBARU IMPREZA -> 41 0.0354640602024046 SUBARU IMPREZA GT TURBO AWD -> 1 0.00086497707810743 SUBARU IMPREZA STI -> 1 0.00086497707810743 SUBARU JUSTY -> 1 0.00086497707810743 SUBARU LEGAC. -> 1 0.00086497707810743 SUBARU LEGACY -> 47 0.0406539226710492 SUBARU LEGACY 1,8 -> 1 0.00086497707810743 SUBARU LEGACY BC7 -> 1 0.00086497707810743 SUBARU TRIBECA -> 1 0.00086497707810743 BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT -> 1 0.00086497707810743 BENTLEY DESCAPOTABLE -> 1 0.00086497707810743 BENTLEY FLYING SPUR -> 1 0.00086497707810743 ROLLS-ROYCE 20 25 -> 1 0.00086497707810743 ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER CL -> 1 0.00086497707810743 ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER CLOUD II -> 1 0.00086497707810743 ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER SHADOW -> 1 0.00086497707810743 ROLLS-ROYCE WRAIGHT -> 1 0.00086497707810743

It could be summarized as: NO ADS FROM SUBARU.

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gamo
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Your percentages total to well over 100.

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John Varela

No they don't, and it's only a subset of vehicles (there's no Toyota, Honda, Ford, etc.) - the leading sentence says, the first number is the count of vehciles and the second is the percentage: i.e. SUBARU B9 TRIBECA 1 car 0.00086497707810743% SUBARU G3X JUSTY 4 cars 0.00345990831242972% SUBARU LEGACY 47 cars 0.04.6539226710492% etc.

So the total percentage comes to just under 0.116% (if those are true precentage numbers rather than fractions which then need multiplying by

100 to get a percentage, in which case the totla is just under 11.6%).

But like most statistical tables, it's misleading and error-ridden. The Legacy is there three times and "Subaru" is rather meaningless, plus there's no mention of model years.

The same happened with New Zealand published "Most Stolen" lists. For a number of years the Nissan 200sx and Nissan Sylvia both appeared in the list, depsite being the same actual car.

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Your Name

No, after -> there is a counter of cars (one) and a percentage of that type over total number of cars of the "county." I.e. if you whant to know how many total cars there are (not listed) you have to compute

1/(0.00086497707810743/100) =

As you could see, having a suburu is a extrange phenomenom.

Reply to
gamo

I didn't realize those absurd fractions were percentages and didn't look closely enough to see the % signs.

Reply to
John Varela

There weren't any % signs in the original post, but it did say there were three columns: "car model, a counter, and the percentage of total cars".

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Your Name

El 28/05/14 08:35, Your Name escribió:

I think John said he didn't realize the "absurd fractions" because he doesn't realize that here, in Europe, the market is very big and there are a lot of models, hence the market share of a good model is a success if it reaches the 1%. Then, the numbers are so low.

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gamo

It doesn't help that the list is inaccurately created - it had "Subaru" as a model and "Legacy" about three different times.

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Your Name

El 28/05/14 09:14, Your Name escribió:

Well, the burocracy is to fill in the fields however. People doesn't know many cars models and do it as good as he can. That's a common problem, and if you think it could be solved with menus with forced choice, they would choose the wrong type.

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gamo

Almost all statistical reports, surveys, polls, studies, etc. are inaccurate for a variety of reasons. The real problems come when fools like news services try and report such statistics as though they are actual facts, and can be downright dangerous when it's health reports (hence the reason apples or whatever "wonder food" are good for you one day and bad for you the next - thanks to two separate silly "studies" and their inaccuarte and misreported results).

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Your Name

I called them absurd because they run to as many as 15 significant digits.

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John Varela

You can never have enough significant digits ... just ask Pi. ;-)

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Your Name

El 29/05/14 02:35, John Varela escribió:

Yeah, that offending calculator machines are ruling the world.

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gamo

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