Hello.
I have been a Royal statistician for a while now and I wondered if you would be interested in some of the Royal statistics that I have prepared in a small journal.
I will give you a selection of my Royal statistics now - leaving some of the better ones for another time! - so you can judge as to whether my findings fit your bill:
1. 94% of Royals wear crowns.
2. Prince William has 22% less hair than Prince Harry.
3. Camilla Parker Bowles is 87% similar to a tree frog (in looks and in personality).
4. Queen Elizabeth has told three and a half more jokes this year than any other. 12% were nob jokes.
5. 98% of Royals have worn turquoise.
6. Prince Phillip is 81% less likely to applaud a sporting achievement than any other Royal. He is however, 92% more likely to applaud John Terry than any other Royal.
7. Queen Elizabeth calls Heads 100% of the time at a coin toss.
8. Princess Beatrice has completed 89% of Super Mario Galaxy for Wii. She has given up trying to finish it.
9. Kate Middleton is 95% less fond of the Irish Daily Star than she was three months ago.
10. Queen Elizabeth's 'slow oscillating wrist wave' makes her half as likely to suffer from Arthritis than a more vigarously waving pensioner.
I look forward to hearing from you soon about incorporating some of my work into your publications.
Royal Statistician, David Hall
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Hello David,
If you put the stats into an article of around 400-500 words we’ll consider publishing it at our website
http://www.significancemagazine.org but please outline how you collect stats, why you collect the stats etc…
Abdel
Regards,
Abdel KhairounEditorial & Membership Assistant
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Hi Abdel,
I've attached my article based around my favourite statistic. I hope you like it.
My favourite statistic…
It has only been in the last week that, with excitement, I discovered this wonderful society. Being able to converse with the Royal Statistics Society is an honour and a privilege, and to be asked to pen my thoughts for this glorious collective is an opportunity that I could not possibly pass up.
I thought that I should tell you about my favourite statistic; it seemed the obvious place to start. I have been a Royal Statistician since the dark October of 1987, a month where only a love for monarchic hypothesis testing could see me arriving in November with a jovial disposition. It is a little over twenty-four years from that very month that my favourite royal statistic was born. And the statistic is… hold your breath and commence the drum roll:
Camilla Parker Bowles wears turquoise 12.87% of the time[1].
This particular statistic has taken a long time to compile. It stemmed from the hypothesis that Ms Parker Bowles wears turquoise a disproportionately large amount of the time. As it goes, the hypothesis has been proved correct as the average percentage of turquoise wearing across a sample of thirty-eight individuals from Hertfordshire stands at 8.72%[2]. From this hypothesis a data collection plan was devised. It would begin thus:
- I would find my ruler and a HB pencil.
- I would use my ruler and HB pencil in order to draw a table, in which to keep a tally chart.
- Every time I saw Ms Parker Bowles, I would mark down the colour she was wearing like this:
Turquoise: III
Not Turquoise: IIIII IIIII
- I would then calculate the percentage using this sum:
Amount of times wearing turquoise/Total number of times wearing clothes * 100
Otherwise known as:
T/TC*100[3]
The methodology that I have used is possibly a little simplistic. My friend Kevin has often offered to help improve the accuracy of this statistic by applying to become Ms Parker Bowles’s window cleaner so as to provide more variables, however I have stuck to my principals and remained loyal to my method. Twenty-four hour news programs and a large telescope usually mean that I can collect enough data to keep even the keenest Royal Statistician salivating.
Naturally, the evolution of this statistic is constant. It is a continual process and one that I undertake with constant vigilance (aside from a week long break I took last July when I went to Mallorca). This is why I will be, in the not too distant future, purchasing the web address:
There I will publish my full findings and show some of the graphs that I have produced.
Royal statistics are, and will always be, a treasure to hold aloft like a shining beacon of monarchical knowledge. They are trivia to wow our contemporaries with down at the pub over a packet of pork scratchings. Substantiation for our supposition. Let’s keep it up folks!
[1] Statistic true as of October 8th 2012 (I’ve been a bit busy so haven’t kept on top of it for the last couple of days).
[2] Sample group would have been thirty-five, but one man brought his girlfriend along and another lady couldn’t get childcare for her twin girls so I included them to make sure they didn’t feel left out. A higher P-value could be argued due to this.
[3] I have never seen Camilla naked so I have never needed to factor this into the sum.
