Friday, May 30, 2008

# of Brothers and sisters you have V. # of checks you write per month
1
2
0
0
1
2
1
2
1 brother, 1 step-brother, 1 step-sister
2
1 sister
1
1,1
4
7
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
1
1
2
infinity
Here we see some terrific data for the amount of brother's and sisters people have vs. the amount of checks they write per month! We will see that this data suggests that the more people in the family the richer they are. However, first we must cover our basis and analyzeseparate pieces of data by themselves. So we see lot's of the student's sampled with one brother or sister. This is surprising. Clearly this is because either they cannot count past 1, or because they feel that any higher would be out of the ordinary and not acceptable on this anonymous (passed around the class) survey. In the second column we see that most people write 1 or 2 checks. Since these are student's we can assume that they are writing 1 a month for their rent, and maybe another for utilities or Internet, or egg's. Notice that we see a direct correlation in the data with zero checks written per month and zero brothers and sisters. This is direct proof, that the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. No kids implies no checks (and balances). Now had we conducted this survey on "the street" we would have noticed the number of checks/month rise, as well as the number of kids. This would be simply because of the complex dynamics of "the streets". We won't go into much detail here, but we will just say that upper class college student's probably don't assemble IKEA furniture. As for the Joke-sters in the data, we see again that people are screwing around just writing down what ever they want on my random surveys of the day. First we see someone with 7 brothers and sisters. WOW, that's a lie. nobody has that many kids these days. The second joke-ster, may not actually be a joke-ster at all. We see the number of checks written by our second joke-ster is infinity. Now, this person may have interpreted the amount of checks/month to include the amount of "Electronic checks" AKA debt cards. If this is the case, they may swipe that debt card quite often, and cannot count all of them. Overall this data does prove to us that: Parent's with more kids, do not teach their children how to write checks.

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