September Reviews, A statistical analysis

[supercombo]

Killer post, do it every month, make it a graph and downloadable!

love it keep it up!

Oh, and the hooker who thought LE would get any value out of this post is not very smart, ignore her.

[urfan]

i'm just a typical dam gemini. what can i say?

[Audrey Astor]

Killer post, do it every month, make it a graph and downloadable!

love it keep it up!

Oh, and the hooker who thought LE would get any value out of this post is not very smart, ignore her.

:confused:hmmmm.... to the op... Do you want to get with Supercombo or the ladies?

No offense Supercombo, I'm sure you're cute too. Not great advice though.

[Velvet Valentine]

If you guys want to see this poor guy get laid, stop giving him crappy advice and pushing him into the fire. LOL

[FirstTracks]

If you guys want to see this poor guy get laid, stop giving him crappy advice and pushing him into the fire. LOL

Hey, I am basically telling him not to quit his day job... Well unless it involves statistical analysis or, well, any math beyond calculating sales tax... Then quit the day job and learn more then make more money then get laid more. Hence, profit.

There is a method to my madness.

As for super-whatsit, even though I did not agree with the young lady's overall opinion, I still respected her enough to politely disagree and refrain from referring to her as a "hooker" that is "not very smart". Made you look like a boy who feels better about himself primarily by treating women poorly.

And before I hear any of that white knight crap ... far from it; to paraphrase Riddick: I am a different kind of evil.

[2Big]

Not bad. Not bad at all. Albeit on a somewhat sophomoric level.

The key problem is that "reviews" are neither - as we say in statistics - a valid nor a reliable measure of anything.

You say so yourself:

" Like the inhabitants of the mystical Midwest city of Lake Woebegone, Denver’s providers are beautiful and above average."

This suggests that reviews, on average, are mostly worthless.

[Bit Banger]

...This suggests that reviews, on average, are mostly worthless.

I agree with the Lake Wobegone remarks and have long railed against the inflated ratings. For predicting the quality of service provided by a particular YL on a particular day - YMMV.

But I would disagree with the quoted statement. A collection of AVERAGE or above ratings from known reviewers would indicate to me that the YL in question is a legitimate ASP. She is not likely to be either a LEO or an ROB. This is worthwhile when compared to the unknowns of BP.

[Guest]

Comment(s)

I really did not want to harm anyone with my post. I understood that as a new poster, I am under probation. I assumed that, as a newbie, my posts would be edited for any information that might be harmful.

My post was allowed, and only later edited to remove certain portions.

And, yes, I do want to get laid. My first post produced a wonderful recommendation, which I am following up on.

To the poster who questions my math: where's your analysis?

Question(s)

Is the data I presented truly harmful? Or merely offensive to some?

To the Moderators: I have received many requests by PM for the unedited original posting. I have not responded to any of them, because I do not know if it is appropriate. Is it ok to send the unedited posting by PM?

To the moderators and general population: If the moderators say it is OK to send the posting by PM, would another venue be more appropriate for posting the unedited report? Say, for example, the clients only section?

To the providers: I do not have access to the clients only section. Someone else would have to volunteer to copy my post there. Would I be blacklisted if I provided the report for posting there? Would the client who copies my post there be blacklisted?

[urfan]

yeah not to mention the one-hit wonder reviews from nefarious interlopers

[Mace]

Comment(s)

To the poster who questions my math: where's your analysis?

Question(s)

Is the data I presented truly harmful? Or merely offensive to some?

Offensive when the names were there. Personally, I find that when someone demonstrates some "legwork", it's an interesting read at the very least.

To the Moderators: I have received many requests by PM for the unedited original posting. I have not responded to any of them, because I do not know if it is appropriate. Is it ok to send the unedited posting by PM?

To what end? The info is already out there, if someone really wants to fill in the blanks from your post. They're just too lazy to do it themselves, and you place yourself under more scrutiny from the troll hunters by enabling possible trouble.

You've already mentioned one problem* below with this action.

To the moderators and general population: If the moderators say it is OK to send the posting by PM, would another venue be more appropriate for posting the unedited report? Say, for example, the clients only section?

To the providers: I do not have access to the clients only section. Someone else would have to volunteer to copy my post there. Would I be blacklisted if I provided the report for posting there? Would the client who copies my post there be blacklisted?*

I'll be one of the first to give you points for trying to contribute. It's a welcome change from the cyber-bitch-slapping that a few of the regulars just drool at when given any opportunity.

[Ghost_Rider]

I'll be one of the first to give you points for trying to contribute. It's a welcome change from the cyber-bitch-slapping that a few of the regulars just drool at when given any opportunity.

AMEN......Thanks Mace

[Guest]

I'll be one of the first to give you points for trying to contribute. It's a welcome change from the cyber-bitch-slapping that a few of the regulars just drool at when given any opportunity.

Thank you, sir.

I will, of course, follow your advice, and not re-share my work or ever attempt to do this again.

Although, I am surprised, because I thought that the original purpose of this board was for the clients to share information about the providers. By compiling the information that was already present in the reviews, I believed I was acting in the spirit of the board's purpose.

Your acknowledgment of the threat of blacklisting means I must accept it as a clear and present danger, and so, I apologize to all the providers I have offended. I assure you that I meant no harm. And I'll never do it again. Promise.

[FirstTracks]

To the poster who questions my math: where's your analysis?

Meh. I try to waste as little time as possible on pointless endeavours and I have already reached my limit for this week.

Don't get me wrong, I am actually impressed that you appear to have, and use, a brain. I was simply trying to save you the time that you might spend in the future doing a monthly analysis such as this at the prompting of those that would be as easily impressed by jingling your car keys over their heads.

The simple fact is that aggregating data that has no direct relation to anything real is pointless therefore trying to analyze said data is equally pointless.

Even if we accept that the data has any basis in reality, statistics based on data gathered where human behaviour is a factor are always going to be somewhat flawed and have a much higher margin of error introduced purely by that "human factor".

Honestly a game theory based analysis would yield better results depending on what the stated goal of the analysis was.

Consider the fact that you do not offer any correction for outliers, lump body rub and escort data together (technically these should be evaluated separately) and try to seek a correlation using a "correlation coefficient" (which is not the correct process to use). I am not even sure which correlation coefficient you tried to use, but it wouldn't be correct either way. You need to deal with sets of numbers (and potentially sets of sets depending on your goal) and not x,y variables (or honestly even sets of x,y variables where you would establish more of a trend line or predictor of future values rather than establishing a correlation).

Then you actually compound the mistake by ignoring the positive correlation result (where r = 0.265525) by dismissing it as "much closer to zero than to negative one" when in actuality the value would at least indicate a reasonable degree of correlation were the data actually relevant. Now if you were dealing with much larger numbers where a higher degree of precision was required, then a .7 or .8 +/- value would be required to even be considered. But in this case, .266 would be at least noteworthy.

However because of the small sample size, this would easily fall within the introduced margin of error.

Then factor in the lack of relevancy of the data itself and the margin of error is so large that any result is completely meaningless.

Now if your stated goal was to just to report aggregated values for reviews within a stated period, then that is easily done with the data you gathered.

What the purpose of that would be I have no idea because it is simply aggregated data from a subset of a population that bears no resemblance to the whole.

Some others will "oooh" and "ahhh" at the reported results, and would even be impressed by erroneous interpretations, and will ask you to show it in pretty colors, but the real outcome will be that you waste a lot of time so that they can obtain a benefit that, in truth, only serves to misinform.

Now if they benefit by feeling somehow informed and you benefit from their misplaced adulation then an equilibrium has been reached and I wish you all the best, but don't expect me to be mindlessly impressed and remain quiet in the presence of such behaviour.

Sometimes wolves like to scatter the herd just to see them run.

[Bit Banger]

I'll be one of the first to give you points for trying to contribute. It's a welcome change from the cyber-bitch-slapping that a few of the regulars just drool at when given any opportunity.

AMEN......Thanks Mace

I'll second GR's "Amen"

For me the only problem with the OP was naming individuals.

Now that you have established what "market rates" are it's time to jump in and establish your own parameters on who you want to see. Use your budget to determine where your price point lies on the curve.

Remember - the point of the exercise is to have fun!

[urfan]

"cyber-bitch-slapping that a few of the regulars just drool at when given any opportunity"

i resemble that remark

[FirstTracks]

i resemble that remark

Did you just reply to your own post? =)

[urfan]

shit i hope not. i was trying to do a quickie reply to what Mace said, if you must know, i was trying to edit my post after i posted it and before i did i think you pulled it up. i'm always editing right up to that 10-minute deadline for changes.

[Nightrain]

In my youth, I once tried a similar thing with Lotto numbers.

Never won a single buck.

[FirstTracks]

shit i hope not. i was trying to do a quickie reply to what Mace said, if you must know, i was trying to edit my post after i posted it and before i did i think you pulled it up. i'm always editing right up to that 10-minute deadline for changes.

If only we had that IRL. =)

In my youth, I once tried a similar thing with Lotto numbers.

Never won a single buck.

Too few iterations.