lol
If I'd known that this little exercise was going to provoke such a reaction, I would have posted it a long time ago.
Anyway, thanks for all the thanks.
First, a couple of responses to particular comments / questions.
(14-06-2015 19:19 )DB83 Wrote: Is there any proof that some of these wishes are actually fulfilled or is this just wishful thinking ?
None whatsoever. One of the many limitations of this so-called 'study'. There are more, which I will cover below.
(15-06-2015 17:26 )winsaw Wrote: I don't see the problem with getting a girl something off her wish list as long as it don't cost much
I don't disagree with this. Indeed, I factored this into my thinking. Specifically, when thinking about the factors I considered (Number of Items; Highest Value Item; Total, Average and Median wishlist value), I only 'weighted' one of them -- the number of items.
That is specifically because babes asserted on this forum that wishlists were set up because
'guys are going to buy us stuff, whether we ask for it or not'. If that's true, then a large wishlist -- offering lots of choice -- with mostly low value items, would be indicative of a wishlist that is set up in the right spirit. So, IF the babe had an above-average score on the ITEMS variable, but was below average on all of the other value-based variables, then I reduced the weighting of ITEMS. In short, she got credit for having a large wishlist, full of cheap items, because it gave her fans a lot of choice, without tempting them to buy big ticket items. On the other hand, if she scored above average on the number of items, AND she was above average on all of the other variables, then the number of ITEMS counted against her (i.e. the larger size of the wishlist was more, not less indicative of 'greed'). That's my subjective opinion and I cop to it.
(15-06-2015 18:28 )DB83 Wrote: Well I, for one, would like to see all the data.
Not seeking to disbelieve what is written but, from my accountancy background, you have to do a proper audit on it.
And why discount an item as 'benefit of doubt' ? Removing any items you create a sample and not a complete survey.
I'm not pretending that this is a super-scientific process. Just the best I could do with reasonable effort and an open mind. I know the arithmetic is right, but there are a lot of caveats. I mentioned a couple above, but -- for completeness:
1. It only accounts for items on the wishlist, not items actually purchased
2. It is a 'snapshot' in time -- specifically, November 2014. Girls edit their wishlists all the time. Maybe I just happened to catch a babe at a time when her wishlist was uncharacteristically full of low or high priced items. Who knows?
3. As mentioned, I weighted the ITEMS category, so there is a bit of subjectivity there, based on my view that a large wishlist full of low priced items is 'good', but a large wishlist full of high priced items is 'bad'.
4. I didn't weight any of the other categories, although there might be an argument for doing so. i.e. should a girl be credited for having a very low MEDIAN value, even if she has a £5000 Rolex as the HIGHEST value item? Maybe. But I didn't. Couldn't be bothered.
5. On the £52,000 handbag ... that was the single item that I excluded from the sample and only because it seemed like such a peculiar outlier when set against the rest of that particular girl's wishlist, as well as all of the other wishlists. The next highest value item in the whole sample was £5,368. HER next highest value item was just over £1,000. So I personally think that she was having a laugh with it. (Of course, I might be wrong...)
6. You will see that a lot of items on a wishlist have no prices against them. Not sure why that is. If Amazon carries the item but it is not in stock, then it normally still lists the price. So those may be items that Amazon once carried, but now doesn't? I dunno. In any event, they were on the wishlist, but unpriced, so I excluded them. A flaw, I know, but the path of least resistance.
7. Finally, it's obviously not a complete sample. I picked the girls I did because they are the ones I could think of at the time and had wishlists that were easy to find. I stopped when I got bored. Simple and unscientific as that.
So, without further ado -- and with all of those caveats in mind! -- here is the full list. BBGI in (brackets), where 0 is the average score. That isn't meant to be subjective in any way and I don't pretend to know what is an acceptable score and what isn't. You can only compare a wishlist against all of the other wishlists. Bottom line: A positive score is above the average and a negative score is below the average. Take from that what you will...
Anastasia Harris (+196)
Scarlet Bouvier (+119)
Gemma Hiles (+70)
Electra Morgan (+67)
Mikayla Bayliss (+47)
Lucy Summers (+47)
Kaitlyn Laken (+46)
Michaela Witt (+20)
Delia Rose (+16)
Hannah Martin (+1)
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Lilly Roma (-3)
Olivia Berzinc (-2)
Ella Jolie (-18)
Jade Samantha (-20)
Yasmine James (-21)
Caty Cole (-21)
Terri Hawkes (-30)
Lola Lawson (-31)
Paige Phillips (-33)
Sophie Hart (-37)
Amy Lu (-39)
Emma Spellar (-47)
Emma C (-48)
Jessie Jensen (-50)
Cara Brett (-51)
Cara Steel (-57)
Hannah Claydon (-59)
Rachel T (-62)
Priya Young (-67)
Kandi Kay (-68)
Jemma Jane (-85)