h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Thanks Mel. (probably)

Now, do I have to wrestle you for that medal?

All medal winners are, of course, subject to the usual doping tests. Now what was in that cough remedy?

F.

For more fun statistics...

Arranged by author, points per word...

Bushkite: 0.933
Enigmatic: 1.154
Fidjit: 1.033
Gentlyunhinged: 0.975
Haveago: 0.981
Lyndabk: 1.125
Mel: 1.103
Rebecca: 1.044
Roy: 1.135

And now, standard deviations...

Bushkite: N/A
Enigmatic: 0.354
Fidjit: 3.5
Gentlyunhinged: 4.243
Haveago: 5.921
Lyndabk: N/A
Mel: 4.646
Rebecca: 6.343
Roy: 4.090

Highest score multiplied by number of letters in name:

Bushkite: 448
Enigmatic1: 695
Fidjit: 387
Gentlyunhinged: 861
Haveago: 462
Lyndabk: 472.5
Mel: 214.5
Rebecca: 479.5
Roy: 216

Yay! This makes me the winner!

In a gently unhinged kind of way...

Surprised to be one of the less deviant, though.

Are you bored, GU?

What if, in true Olympic style, you drop the highest and lowest score for each story and average the rest - would the result change?

What algorithm would you need to come up with to ensure that Fidjit gets the highest score?

It's a long time since o'level maths. I'm sure I did understand standard deviation once!

Means, modes and medians - I remember them!

F.

That makes me the most deviant.



RK

Erm - sorry to sound thick but why are me and Lyndabk N/A in the standard deviations bit??

(Congrats now to Roy by the way)

Bushkite

Because you only submitted one story, so no deviation.

F.

*What if, in true Olympic style, you drop the highest and lowest score for each story and average the rest - would the result change?*

Roy A2913716.... 54.5
Enigmatic1 A2918946... 54.5
Rebecca A2913842 ... 53.5

(Not averaged - would not change order)

RK
ps
I'm trying any formula to get me to the top.

Look, you can all join me for a group hug on the top step when they play the anthem. Ladies first, obviously. 'Literature is the only winner here,' he said sickeningly.

Erm. A, I allowed in? My most sincere and humble apologies to Mel and Enigmatic, and to Roy and Rebecca for mucking up the scoring.
I had Roy and Rebecca on the next page and left off Mel's scores.

Thank you all for being so magnanimous(is that the word I mean)

It was a bit of a nightmare . I copied and pasted all the scores. Added them and then checked them with a calculator but obviously missing Mel's scores threw it all out. Knew I should have got someone to double check before I went off half cocked and announced a winner.

You can all slap me about with a wet
still, my hearty congratulations for Mel in second place and for Roy, now proudly on the podium, tears in his eyes as the strains of the national anthem fill the stadium.

I enjoyed ALL of the stories. The variations on the themes were very clever. Just one thing, if we do it again could someone else please add up?
My family won't let me add up the scores in scrabble!

Thanks guys.

AAAAArgh. I didn't mean to make it sound like Rebecca mucked it up. Doh! I just got star poster from the Eds. Do you think I should give the goodie bag back?

I'll get my coat.

I'm not a standard deviate, I'm an original one

Star poster - now that is worth celebrating. But as you don't drink, I'll have yours.

Think I need a and a paracetamol. and a

Talk to me Enigmatic, please tell me you still love me.

One of the parcans blew just above my head in the theatre this evening. Gave me quite a shock.
(Going for the sympathy now!)

s for everyone.
spidey

Spidey, you're forgiven. Sit down, I'll put the kettle on

I just got back from the cinema.

Spidey, no worries. As I said to the manager at the cinema who apologised for the film cutting out midway thru: "sh*t happens!"

Congrats to Roy - I was just keeping the podium warm for ya

Goodnight guys.

Thanks Enig.

Congratulations roy and thanks to everyone for being so friendly and helpful and making this such a fun challenge.

haveago