There are Lies, damned lies....

[Linford]

and there are statistics

A statistically modelled wedding

It's the classic dilemma for anyone planning a wedding. The list of friends and family you'd like to invite is seemingly endless. Your budget is not, and neither is the venue's floor space. Could one couple have found a solution via statistical modelling?
FULL STORY

What a waste of time ....I favour the Tombola method..

 

[MontyVeda]

and there are statistics




What a waste of time ....I favour the Tombola method..

You clearly don't listen to Radio 4 do you Linfy?

 

[Linford]

You clearly don't listen to Radio 4 do you Linfy?

Too political for me MV

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

What's this thread about? All I get is a pic of 2 people getting married?

 

[Dangermouse]

They look happy enough to me............whats wrong with it

 

[Dangermouse]

What's this thread about? All I get is a pic of 2 people getting married?

Possibly the happy couples pic has been cut and pasted onto another pic, but that's their business not ours

 

[swee'pea99]

18 months, tops.

 

[Linford]

What's this thread about? All I get is a pic of 2 people getting married?

The forum software has cropped the quote. Expand it and it will make more sense. ?

 

[asterix]

and there are statistics




What a waste of time ....I favour the Tombola method..

Should we be expecting an announcement?

 

[Sara_H]

What a load of waffle. That couple have too muchtime on their hands.

 

[theclaud]

they were also surprised by how few of their overseas guests could make it.

From Serbia, Taiwan, the UK and US? Muppets. I know people's weddings are the centre of their lives, but nevertheless it always amazes me that people imagine that everyone they know will be able or willing to cross continents for a bit of ceremony and a bit of a knees-up, even an important ceremony for people of whom they are fond. I've had recent wedding invitations to Vietnam and Washington. It's nice to be thought of, but it's odd how surprised people seem by having such invitations turned down.

 

[theclaud]

Are you sure that they are surprised to be turned down? I always thought that the invites were sent in the expectation of being turned down.

It's possible that they just act surprised to be polite, of course, but the OP would indicate that this isn't necessarily the case...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

They should have invited me, I'd have gone.

 

[MontyVeda]

Hard to say really, because it is all a bit of a non story. ...

it's a transcription from Radio 4's More Or Less programme... it's about statistics, working them out and interpreting the results, and not about getting in a tiff over wedding invites.

 

[theclaud]

The bit quoted is at best an example of confusing ball park guesses with something else.

To be fair, they probably made a better job of it on More or Less.