The results are summarised in handy chart form below. They are revealing - yet not that surprising. I know you will like them.
(If you have tiny eyes, click on them to make them bigger; if that does not work I simply do not know what to suggest, other than a magnifying glass and a large-print book from the Reader's Digest.)
10 comments:
Nice to see a really scientific analysis of the data... I presume that you have an apple mac?
It's good isn't it. I am really good at that kind of thing though.
Of course I have a Mac. That is because I am a) very beautiful; b) really clever; c) like, super-cool.
MacMonkey, I sense your patience may have been tested somewhat at airports recently. I want to see the chart that splits out the loud shouting, laptop owning, small tackled - by US, Canadian, English.
Just to see what the data tells us.
The data tells me one thing: the Quebeckers are way too cool to shout into mobile phones. They also have the Correct View of work/life balance, meaning that they are usually only using the shiny bits of their BlackBerries to check their hair.
All the people I cite above are English Canadians, or more specifically Torontonians -some of whom think it is 'cool' to pace about the breakfast area of a 'boot-eeque hotel' shouting into their mobiles about a $10,000 deal!!! It is great.
I would do a chart but I don't know how to do it with 3 sets of information. That is because I am by training a neurosurgeon, not a chart monkey!! (This is a little known fact that may surprise some of my readers.)
Confession! I own a PC laptop! I also own a mobile but I loathe it so much I allowed it to die (with a pathetic little chirp) and have not bothered to revive it. I realized its sole purpose in life was to allow people I don't really like to contact me whenever the hell they felt like. However I do so like my laptop because it has all of my favorite programs on and it talks dirty to my Wacom tablet. If you can convince me that Mac dirty talk it superior to PC (and hand over the frightening amount of cash Macs demand) I shall jettison the PC at once.
I do not have an iPhone, and I do not have a BlackBerry!!! This is because I am not very important, and also I like being able to not be got at.
Yes.
I have a PC laptop. But I shout at it a lot - does that make it better at all?
I have a Mac too. They are the fucking business.
Admittedly if you have a MacBook sooner or later a very thin piece of plastic will peel off the keyboard for no apparent reason, but that is far, far outweighed by the joy of NOT getting a load of windows popping up shouting "You cannot close down because a program you have never heard of is still performing a task even though you can't find it in Program Manager" when you try to switch off.
nice research - i spend many hours in airports and would like to suggest the following study to compliment your prior work:
variations as to why the first post-landing call is made: ie: "hey, i just landed", "i'm still on the plane", "just checking in...", "we're still taxiing!"
I will do a study on your study and get back to you with my results.
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