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Student section and profanity in your school's arena
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It's hard to get a big amount of students to a game when your student population is only 2000 students.
Numbers wise, Merrimack doesn't have a lot of students at the games compared to schools like BC and BU...but percentage wise we blow them out of the water! We have around 500 students attend the games. We had 600 attend the BU game. That's more than 1/4 of the ENTIRE student population.
It's hard to get a big amount of students to a game when your student population is only 2000 students.
Numbers wise, Merrimack doesn't have a lot of students at the games compared to schools like BC and BU...but percentage wise we blow them out of the water! We have around 500 students attend the games. We had 600 attend the BU game. That's more than 1/4 of the ENTIRE student population.
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Based on how accurate your previous attendance stats were good luck getting anyone to believe you here. From my vantage point when the football team was brought onto the ice as recognition for their 7-3 season during BU's game at MC it looked like the ~85 of them were at least 40% of the student section for the game.
Based on how accurate your previous attendance stats were good luck getting anyone to believe you here. From my vantage point when the football team was brought onto the ice as recognition for their 7-3 season during BU's game at MC it looked like the ~85 of them were at least 40% of the student section for the game.
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Wow, kudos to RPI for doing that!
Wow, kudos to RPI for doing that!
Re: Student section and profanity in your school's arena
call the box office if you like. Usually they don't cap student admission, but since they knew it was going to sell out they capped it at 600. All of those tickets went.
That's roughly 30% of our entire student body at a hockey game.
call the box office if you like. Usually they don't cap student admission, but since they knew it was going to sell out they capped it at 600. All of those tickets went.
That's roughly 30% of our entire student body at a hockey game.
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Explain how they are skewed. 600/2000=30%
on top of that unlike other schools students cannot get tickets in advanced. You get your ticket at the door when you present your ID. So, all the 600 tickets went and therefore there 600 students at the game.
Explain how they are skewed. 600/2000=30%
on top of that unlike other schools students cannot get tickets in advanced. You get your ticket at the door when you present your ID. So, all the 600 tickets went and therefore there 600 students at the game.
Re: Student section and profanity in your school's arena
unlike your school, we cannot fit our entire student population into our building - in fact our student population is nearly 5 times that of agganis' capacity. thus, your use of percentages as a meaningful statistic when enrollment sizes are vastly different makes that statistic skewed and thus irrelevant.
unlike your school, we cannot fit our entire student population into our building - in fact our student population is nearly 5 times that of agganis' capacity. thus, your use of percentages as a meaningful statistic when enrollment sizes are vastly different makes that statistic skewed and thus irrelevant.
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And how you're using the statistic isn't skewed, given its implication?
Slurpees just explained why it doesn't mean anything the way you said it did.
And how you're using the statistic isn't skewed, given its implication?
Slurpees just explained why it doesn't mean anything the way you said it did.
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Two of my friends actually walked up and asked for "student tickets" (as some rinks have cheaper tickets for away students than regular tickets since they know college kids are poor) and were handed tickets for free, presumably from the MC student allotment, as no other tickets would be free. If that's how stringent they were about verifying the people they were giving the MC student allotment to were MC students you can't claim with any certainty that there were 600 MC students there.
Two of my friends actually walked up and asked for "student tickets" (as some rinks have cheaper tickets for away students than regular tickets since they know college kids are poor) and were handed tickets for free, presumably from the MC student allotment, as no other tickets would be free. If that's how stringent they were about verifying the people they were giving the MC student allotment to were MC students you can't claim with any certainty that there were 600 MC students there.
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Skewed statistics are statistics that are in some way false. For example, venues often times count tickets sold as attendence....that is an example of a skewed statistic.
But I'm done talking about that it's a frivolous thing to argue about anyways.
Yes DD offered to build an arena. Yes Merrimack turned them down. It had to do with a multitude of problems including: environmental and town by-law limitations and merrmack's food services contract with Sodexo. I'm sure there were more like wanting to keep the name lawler. But that could have been circumnavigated by doing something like lawler rink at the dd arena.
Skewed statistics are statistics that are in some way false. For example, venues often times count tickets sold as attendence....that is an example of a skewed statistic.
But I'm done talking about that it's a frivolous thing to argue about anyways.
Yes DD offered to build an arena. Yes Merrimack turned them down. It had to do with a multitude of problems including: environmental and town by-law limitations and merrmack's food services contract with Sodexo. I'm sure there were more like wanting to keep the name lawler. But that could have been circumnavigated by doing something like lawler rink at the dd arena.
Re: Student section and profanity in your school's arena
the definition of a skewed statistic is not an incorrect one. it is much closer to your first statement - a misused statistic that shows an asymmetrical outlier from the normal probability. in other words, if you say 30% of MC students went to the game and 10% of BU and BC students went to their game therefore MC blows them out of the water, you are using a skewed and more importantly incomparable set of data. percentages are only useful when the 100% values are the same or virtually identical. so to use the 30% in any type of argument against another school makes that argument woefully poor.
the definition of a skewed statistic is not an incorrect one. it is much closer to your first statement - a misused statistic that shows an asymmetrical outlier from the normal probability. in other words, if you say 30% of MC students went to the game and 10% of BU and BC students went to their game therefore MC blows them out of the water, you are using a skewed and more importantly incomparable set of data. percentages are only useful when the 100% values are the same or virtually identical. so to use the 30% in any type of argument against another school makes that argument woefully poor.
Re: Student section and profanity in your school's arena
Jesus, take it somewhere else.
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you're right. no more from me on it.
you're right. no more from me on it.
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Actually, I think shouting "casserole" at the opposing players is pretty funny!
After reading these posts, I'd say the crowd at UAF is fairly well-mannered, maybe because it includes a lot of community members and families. The worst chant that's used on a regular basis is "Sit down, b----." I don't like hearing it, and I especially don't like my young son hearing it. Chants should be creative, not crude.
Actually, I think shouting "casserole" at the opposing players is pretty funny!
After reading these posts, I'd say the crowd at UAF is fairly well-mannered, maybe because it includes a lot of community members and families. The worst chant that's used on a regular basis is "Sit down, b----." I don't like hearing it, and I especially don't like my young son hearing it. Chants should be creative, not crude.
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Re: Student section and profanity in your school's arena
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Just making sure everyone saw this. It doesn't happen often.
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The contract with Sodexo probably could have been worked out. The environmental issue probably is more tricky. I'm surprised the town would not be willing to work with that considering that they could make a deal with Merrimack to make use of that facilities for the general public and schools. As far as keeping the name the same "What's in a name?"
The contract with Sodexo probably could have been worked out. The environmental issue probably is more tricky. I'm surprised the town would not be willing to work with that considering that they could make a deal with Merrimack to make use of that facilities for the general public and schools. As far as keeping the name the same "What's in a name?"