Oh no!! Brexit not going quite as well as hoped

[jowwy]

If it is that well established I am sure you will be able to give us loads of examples of political/social research companies and government departments illustrating their findings to one decimal place.

Obviously the detailed calculations are carried out to several decimal places during the analysis, but they are virtually always demonstrated publicly by charts using rounded whole numbers. For a lot of my working life I was responsible for some of the statistical outputs in the annual reports of a large company so for once I do know a little bit about the subject.

You still keep on throwing around this phrase "double standards" as if it means something. What exactly are the "double standards" wrt to this particular issue of rounding up statistics? Who is saying one thing and doing another?

i would if i could be remotely bothered.........What company was that Mothercare??? and when did you qualify is a data analyst??? or did you just produce data reports and think, hey i know more than everyone on the subject

 

[Rusty Nails]

i would if i could be remotely bothered.........What company was that Mothercare??? and when did you qualify is a data analyst??? or did you just produce data reports and think, hey i know more than everyone on the subject

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

I haven't got a "data analyst qualification" but my degree was joint mathematics and economics. I don't profess to know more than everyone but, like that old joke about two blokes trying to outrun a lion, I just have to run faster than one.

 

[newfhouse]

52:48 is so lacking in precision I‘m not going to give any credence to that poll ever again.

 

[jowwy]

52:48 is so lacking in precision I‘m not going to give any credence to that poll ever again.

no one else does anymore...it was 6yrs ago and forgotten about by the many......but still rolled out by the few

 

[Bromptonaut]

The data is what it is. It's been produced for public consumption with a clear caveat about rounding.

If @jowwy believes the data's credibility is shot by a fairly standard presentational tactic then that's their privilege.

Other's may regard it as good within its limitation.

 

[icowden]

I haven't got a "data analyst qualification" but my degree was joint mathematics and economics. I don't profess to know more than everyone but, like that old joke about two blokes trying to outrun a lion, I just have to run faster than one.

Just ignore the troll. I haven't got a "data analyst qualification" either (most data analysts don't). I just work as one.

 

[Mr Celine]

Jowly's just upset that everyone thinks he's as thick as 2 short planks when it should really be 2.3 short planks.

 

[jowwy]

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

I haven't got a "data analyst qualification" but my degree was joint mathematics and economics. I don't profess to know more than everyone but, like that old joke about two blokes trying to outrun a lion, I just have to run faster than one.

Well at least you got the "old bloke" bit right..........

So not qualified, but still thinks he knows what the standard is in the industry of data science?? or is it just what you see in the news, so you think it must be right??

Well m glad you never have to send data to anywhere that relies on accuracy for accounting or monetary payments.......how many people in wales rusty, we want to pay out the barnet formula????

Rusty says " its 5m rounded to make it easier"

Reply from westminster " so is it 5m or is 5, 499, 999...cause it makes a huge difference in how much money we give you"

Rusty says " hey its standard in the data world to round up/down, so its 5m"

Westminster " no probs, so its £1 a head, so thats £5m quid to wales then"

welsh finance minister to westminster " hey, you just paid out the welsh finances and its £499,999 short"

Westminster " no its not, rusty told us theres 5m people in wales and industry standard is to round to nearest number"

Welsh Finance minister " yeh but now we half a million short on our budget"

Westminster " complain to the guy who provided the head count data, not us....we gave what you asked for in per head count"

Welsh finance minister " Hey rusty, whats these figures you have given to westminster for the barnet formula payment. we half a million short"

Rustys says " industry standard to use rounding to make it easier for people innit, so thats what i did"

Welsh Finance minster " your fired, collect your p45 on the way out"


i rest my case.......

 

[jowwy]

Jowly's just upset that everyone thinks he's as thick as 2 short planks when it should really be 2.3 short planks.

jowwy couldn't give a fark what the NACA inbreds think........

 

[jowwy]

Just ignore the troll. I haven't got a "data analyst qualification" either (most data analysts don't). I just work as one.

ah i'm a troll, because i dont agree with you.......how original

 

[Rusty Nails]

Well at least you got the "old bloke" bit right..........

So not qualified, but still thinks he knows what the standard is in the industry of data science?? or is it just what you see in the news, so you think it must be right??

Well m glad you never have to send data to anywhere that relies on accuracy for accounting or monetary payments.......how many people in wales rusty, we want to pay out the barnet formula????

Rusty says " its 5m" rounded to make it easier

Reply from westminster " so is it 5m or is 5, 499, 999...cause it makes a huge difference in how much money we give you"

Rusty says " hey its standard in the data world to round up/down, so its 5m"

Westminster " no probs, so its £1 a head, so thats £5m quid to wales then"

welsh finance minister to westminster " hey, you just paid out the welsh finances and its £499,999 short"

Westminster " no its not, rusty told us theres 5m people in wales and industry standard is to round to nearest number"

Welsh Finance minister " yeh but now we half a million short on our budget"

Westminster " complain to the guy who provided the head count data, not us....we gave what you asked for in per head count"

Welsh finance minsister " Hey rusty, whats these figures you have given to westminster for the barnet formula payment. we half a million short"

Rustys says " industry standard to use rounding to make it easier for people innit, so thats what i did"

Welsh Finance minster " your fired, collect your p45 on the way out"


i rest my case.......

'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”

 

[classic33]

Well at least you got the "old bloke" bit right..........

So not qualified, but still thinks he knows what the standard is in the industry of data science?? or is it just what you see in the news, so you think it must be right??

Well m glad you never have to send data to anywhere that relies on accuracy for accounting or monetary payments.......how many people in wales rusty, we want to pay out the barnet formula????

Rusty says " its 5m rounded to make it easier"

Reply from westminster " so is it 5m or is 5, 499, 999...cause it makes a huge difference in how much money we give you"

Rusty says " hey its standard in the data world to round up/down, so its 5m"

Westminster " no probs, so its £1 a head, so thats £5m quid to wales then"

welsh finance minister to westminster " hey, you just paid out the welsh finances and its £499,999 short"

Westminster " no its not, rusty told us theres 5m people in wales and industry standard is to round to nearest number"

Welsh Finance minister " yeh but now we half a million short on our budget"

Westminster " complain to the guy who provided the head count data, not us....we gave what you asked for in per head count"

Welsh finance minister " Hey rusty, whats these figures you have given to westminster for the barnet formula payment. we half a million short"

Rustys says " industry standard to use rounding to make it easier for people innit, so thats what i did"

Welsh Finance minster " your fired, collect your p45 on the way out"


i rest my case.......

3,107,500, with a daily adjustment of 5458* leaving Wales in the morning and returning in the evening.

*Figure supplied by regional rail

 

[cookiemonster]

Well at least you got the "old bloke" bit right..........

So not qualified, but still thinks he knows what the standard is in the industry of data science?? or is it just what you see in the news, so you think it must be right??

Well m glad you never have to send data to anywhere that relies on accuracy for accounting or monetary payments.......how many people in wales rusty, we want to pay out the barnet formula????

Rusty says " its 5m rounded to make it easier"

Reply from westminster " so is it 5m or is 5, 499, 999...cause it makes a huge difference in how much money we give you"

Rusty says " hey its standard in the data world to round up/down, so its 5m"

Westminster " no probs, so its £1 a head, so thats £5m quid to wales then"

welsh finance minister to westminster " hey, you just paid out the welsh finances and its £499,999 short"

Westminster " no its not, rusty told us theres 5m people in wales and industry standard is to round to nearest number"

Welsh Finance minister " yeh but now we half a million short on our budget"

Westminster " complain to the guy who provided the head count data, not us....we gave what you asked for in per head count"

Welsh finance minister " Hey rusty, whats these figures you have given to westminster for the barnet formula payment. we half a million short"

Rustys says " industry standard to use rounding to make it easier for people innit, so thats what i did"

Welsh Finance minster " your fired, collect your p45 on the way out"


i rest my case.......

What case? Did you have one?

 

[jowwy]

does no one leave wales by car, bike, bus or taxi then???.....again spurious data

 

[cookiemonster]

ah i'm a troll, because i dont agree with you.......how original

If you don't agree with someone on a discussion forum, it's convention to actually post evidence and reasoning as to why you disagree.

Not tell everyone to eff off or throw whatever childish insults you have.