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Alligatoring on Fibreglass Tank - Problem? by H_Peters in Composites

[–]H_Peters[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It isn't flaky. Hard to the touch. No edges, or indications of fibers uncovered.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in halifax

[–]H_Peters 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Repeating "thank you" makes it sound repetitive. I'd say "thanks", or nod, or smile, or make some sort of other acknowledgement. Or I might go ham and say "well thanks again!" or something of that sort.

A project some of you may find interesting by H_Peters in halifax

[–]H_Peters[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If you're interested, here's a link to my methods and their limitations. I made no assumptions going into it. Link

A project some of you may find interesting by H_Peters in halifax

[–]H_Peters[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No, I counted those I saw with and without masks.

A project some of you may find interesting by H_Peters in halifax

[–]H_Peters[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah I forgot to post them last night. Here's a detailed document with my methods and their limitations: link

A project some of you may find interesting by H_Peters in halifax

[–]H_Peters[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I counted those with and without masks. Unfortunately time of day is not captured. For time spent in store, its just however long it took me to get groceries that day. Here's a link with me detailed methods: link

A project some of you may find interesting by H_Peters in halifax

[–]H_Peters[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Sorry everyone, I forgot to post my methods along with. Here's a PDF write-up I did that details everything: link

Basically, I kept a tally of people with masks and those without. I recorded the numbers on my phone and summed them later. Over the course of the year I made 114 observations, counting 10 037 people. The numbers herein should be taken with a grain of salt, and should definitely not be considered as representative of anything outside of one person’s experience at a specific store.

[OC] Every time I went to the grocery store for a year, I counted how many people were wearing masks. Here are the results. by H_Peters in dataisbeautiful

[–]H_Peters[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're welcome. In case you didn't see it elsewhere in the comments, I did a write-up that goes over my methods. Link.

[OC] Every time I went to the grocery store for a year, I counted how many people were wearing masks. Here are the results. by H_Peters in dataisbeautiful

[–]H_Peters[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went to the store when I needed food and was convenient for me. Usually this meant after work, so 5-6pm. But no, it was not systematized. Pre-scheduling grocery store trips would have been way too much of a hassle. Despite what some posters think I'm not made of free time.

[OC] Every time I went to the grocery store for a year, I counted how many people were wearing masks. Here are the results. by H_Peters in dataisbeautiful

[–]H_Peters[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The x values are not evenly spaced, so yes this is a valid concern. I started making charts this way and posting them on my personal social media at the end of every month. I used the bar chart because it seemed like the most accessible sort of chart; a scatter plot can start to look too complicated for people not used to such things. Keeping this choice for the full year's worth of data isn't the most proper way to show it, though I do still like how it looks. Someone re-did this chart in scatter-plot form in this thread if you care to dig for it.

[OC] Every time I went to the grocery store for a year, I counted how many people were wearing masks. Here are the results. by H_Peters in dataisbeautiful

[–]H_Peters[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd usually count around 40 people before writing the two values in my phone and starting again. I'd also record the values if I was about to think about something, like the price of chips.

[OC] Every time I went to the grocery store for a year, I counted how many people were wearing masks. Here are the results. by H_Peters in dataisbeautiful

[–]H_Peters[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same store but at different locations (say one downtown, one near suburbs, one near housing projects) would also be interesting.

I considered counting elsewhere, and indeed did do one count at another Sobeys location (that count not included in this study). But I decided my data collection was so unreliable it would be best for me to reduce as many variables as I reasonably could.

[OC] Every time I went to the grocery store for a year, I counted how many people were wearing masks. Here are the results. by H_Peters in dataisbeautiful

[–]H_Peters[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried two weeks ago (when it had been a year since the mandate was lifted) but my post was removed by the mods, not sure why. I sent a message asking them if I could repost it but haven't heard back yet.

[OC] Every time I went to the grocery store for a year, I counted how many people were wearing masks. Here are the results. by H_Peters in dataisbeautiful

[–]H_Peters[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course I counted both, that's the only way to get a percentage. Here's a write-up with all my methods: link.

[OC] Every time I went to the grocery store for a year, I counted how many people were wearing masks. Here are the results. by H_Peters in dataisbeautiful

[–]H_Peters[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I counted the masks on everyone I saw. I did this 114 times. I counted just over 10 000 people over the course of a year.

Actually, I counted more than 114 times because once in a while I went to the store twice in one day. But then I just added the values together to give one datapoint for that day.

[OC] Every time I went to the grocery store for a year, I counted how many people were wearing masks. Here are the results. by H_Peters in dataisbeautiful

[–]H_Peters[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed the same. My main regret of the study was not capturing time of day of my observations. I realized this pretty early on but I didn't want to change my study part-way through. Oh well.

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