Great video on Benford’s Law here. Matt goes into a good amount of detail outlining why this occurs, why it doesn’t always apply, and what it means if data does/doesn’t follow the Law.
what’s the difference between a British and and American shorthair? Do the British ones drink tea instead of milk? Sleep on the left side of the couch? Meow with a superfluous “u” or an extra syllable? Do they have some strange slang term for catnip that is hilarious, offensive, or somehow both at the same time?
I tip twenty most places. Easy to calculate and fair.
I see this and they have gotten my tip. If you work there and are upset by that, then you need to find another job because the company is stealing your tips no matter what. And I personally won’t return, because it’s never the best restaurants who pull this shit.
Similarly if a company puts automatic gratuity on my bill that’s the tip as well… And usually it’s less than I’d give freely.
If Americans are supposed to tip extra it their choice. If you want to define service charges or something like this, then you’ve made your choice. Greedy fucks trying to hide these extra charges need to stop. I’ll pay more for food on a menu if that’s what it takes but trying to sneak it is bullshit.
I grew up in the CA bay area and always called them sunshowers. I didn’t make that up: I called them sunshowers when I was a kid because the people around me called them sunshowers.
As an aside, I also taught linguistics at the university level for about 10 years. I do question the accuracy of many of Katz’s charts because they very often do not match people’s expectations, and beyond the level of “you expected this because you didn’t know any better”. I would take them with a grain of salt. That’s not really a dig on Katz, either: difficult to study anything at this scale.
I have a theory that this has a special name less frequently the further you get from the equator because it’s a phenomenon that’s less rare when the sun spends less time overhead
Decades of advanced research, a highly complex machine using state of the art software, and a not insignificant amount of production materials put to good use! 👍
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