Tourney: 2009-10-17/18 - BFF Paris Polo Tourney

It's not manipulation. That was the point of the comparison: Netto versus all of London versus Emilie and Gabes. I have offered to provide anyone with raw data, which is also easily available for you to tabulate.

Of course they do; there is usually rounding error in a column of percentages rounded to whole numbers. I thought you were a maths geek.
It's just not the way I'd have done it. Either use decimal places or state that you are rounding. Sorry I just like completism.

if you round correctly, it should still = 100!

if you floor/ceil them it wont = 100.

if you round correctly, it should still = 100!

surely not? i ahvnt done any rounding in a long time, but isn't .5 rounded up? so if everything was a .5 you could have way over 100? dont knwo what floor/ceil is though

maybe you're right...

maybe you're wrong...

It's just not the way I'd have done it. Either use decimal places or state that you are rounding. Sorry I just like completism.

It's common to round in social science. I'm very sorry that I did not put the appropriate note to the table. Very, very sorry.

if you round correctly, it should still = 100!

Please reveal your magical rounding technique.

32.2
7.7
5.5
5.5
3.3
4.5

maybe you're right...

maybe you're wrong...

He's right. You're wrong.

It's common to round in social science. I'm very sorry that I did not put the appropriate note to the table. Very, very sorry.
Haha, Guess that's just the difference in what you do for a living compared to my livlihood.

Haha, Guess that's just the difference in what you do for a living compared to my livlihood.

If it were not a quick joke, I would have been more thorough. Of course it should have had an note that said the percentages were rounded. But that they were rounded, and hence would not add exactly to 100, also seemed obvious to me. But I do enjoy everyone's serious criticisms of my joke table. Really.

I don't round Numbers, it's bad practice.

If it were not a quick joke, I would have been more thorough. Of course it should have had an note that said the percentages were rounded. But that they were rounded, and hence would not add exactly to 100, also seemed obvious to me. But I do enjoy everyone's serious criticisms of my joke table. Really.
I think you may be taking the criticism too seriously. I mock purely because I can, not because I believe you genuinely analysed and presented detailed figures and I found a hole in them.

For all I know you made up the numbers anyway, it's not like I checked or asked for the source data (Even though you have offered it a number of times).

I don't round Numbers, it's bad practice.

Right, it is important information that the percentage of pictures Adam took of you was 7.7778.

yes, as that is the real value, rounding is only for lazy oafs who can't grasp the reality of the floating point Number as opposed to Integers. so there.

Right, it is important information that the percentage of pictures Adam took of you was 7.7778.
phew...! I always take 8%+ as my stalker/obsessive percentage so looks like em has nothing to worry about....

phew...! I always take 8%+ as my stalker/obsessive percentage so looks like em has nothing to worry about....
Do you see the mess you've started!

Do you see how upset I am?!

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hey nani did some good pictures, especially teamphotos lol!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43837824@N04/
;)

I don't round Numbers, it's bad practice.

Cool, can you write out pi for me then?

Cool, can you write out pi for me then?

Ooohhh! Snap!

cool, can you write out pi for me then?

π

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That's a representation of a number. It is, in many regards, no different from rounding.

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well...my week end trick..

Cool, can you write out pi for me then?

Zing!

(Also, for the record, of course you don't round when you are doing calculations, but presenting numbers in tables is another story -- generally one would have to round, as Louis points out.)