Lies, damned lies and data

[DickyC]

Data proves there are some seriously undernourished people in Newbury.

We are Number 1 fruit shoppers at M&S in Newbury? There's only two of us and we don't buy all our grub at Marks.

Bizarre.

[ReallyReallyGood]

It’s bananas

[Digger]

Yes but what did you win?

Nothing?

Hmmm . . .

Delete the email.

[EmailAddress]

I've been the No.1 listener in the World to Prodigy (Spotify) for a number of years.

Something I simply cannot believe is true.

Even with everybody in the place and we wind it up, I'm hardly the firestarter.

Must be an omen, or voodoo people.

Also had an email from our broadband during lockdown, No.1 user in our area. Think it was more passive aggressive to be honest but we had managed to download 700GB+ that month

[.:ian:.]

Do an FOI request on the underlying data behind this "fact"

[vikingaero]

You could still be No1 (#1 -urgggh!) and be No.1 with 1,000 other shoppers who bought the same quantity of rabbit food as you.

[wolfracesonic]

…or your M&S account has been hacked, I’d check your card statement if I were you.

[ARHarh]

I think it is much more likely you buy some fruit and by telling you, you are number one it will encourage you to by as much or more next week to keep you position/

[DickyC]

wolfracesonic said:

…or your M&S account has been hacked, I’d check your card statement if I were you.

We just have a Sparks loyalty card, not their credit card. M&S have suggested several times we have one each to benefit twice from their offers. I would, but we'd plunge down in the league tables.

LOCAL COUPLE RELEGATED TO DIVISION 2

[DickyC]

ARHarh said:

I think it is much more likely you buy some fruit and by telling you, you are number one it will encourage you to by as much or more next week to keep you position/

That could well be it. We were #9 last month.

[Zarco]

EmailAddress said:

I've been the No.1 listener in the World to Prodigy (Spotify) for a number of years.

Something I simply cannot believe is true.

Even with everybody in the place and we wind it up, I'm hardly the firestarter.

Must be an omen, or voodoo people.

Also had an email from our broadband during lockdown, No.1 user in our area. Think it was more passive aggressive to be honest but we had managed to download 700GB+ that month

I'd rather have that than No. 1 fruit buyer in Newbury

[DickyC]

Zarco said:

EmailAddress said:

I've been the No.1 listener in the World to Prodigy (Spotify) for a number of years.

Something I simply cannot believe is true.

Even with everybody in the place and we wind it up, I'm hardly the firestarter.

Must be an omen, or voodoo people.

Also had an email from our broadband during lockdown, No.1 user in our area. Think it was more passive aggressive to be honest but we had managed to download 700GB+ that month

I'd rather have that than No. 1 fruit buyer in Newbury

Oh, I don't know. There were a couple of catchy tunes on it.

[jonsp]

ARHarh said:

I think it is much more likely you buy some fruit and by telling you, you are number one it will encourage you to by as much or more next week to keep you position/

That would assume there's some honour/ego boost/reward in being #1

Hardly something to brag about and there's clearly no prize so what's the point?

[jfdi]

jonsp said:

hat would assume there's some honour/ego boost/reward in being #1

Hardly something to brag about and there's clearly no prize so what's the point?

This is not just any #1 this is an M&S #1.

[jeremyc]

Are you sure you weren't the first fruit buyer this month?

You were queuing outside waiting for them to open on 1 October in order to get your apple, weren't you.

[Tango13]

Maybe M&S are telling Dicky he's a no one not a #1?

[ARHarh]

jonsp said:

ARHarh said:

I think it is much more likely you buy some fruit and by telling you, you are number one it will encourage you to by as much or more next week to keep you position/

That would assume there's some honour/ego boost/reward in being #1

Hardly something to brag about and there's clearly no prize so what's the point?

But the OP is on the internet bragging about it so maybe they understand his motivations better than you

[DickyC]

Tango13 said:

Maybe M&S are telling Dicky he's a no one not a #1?

I am not a number. I AM A FREE MAN!

[Tango13]

DickyC said:

Tango13 said:

Maybe M&S are telling Dicky he's a no one not a #1?

I am not a number. I AM A FREE MAN!

Morgan, is that you?

[cheesejunkie]

Tesco send us the what have you bought most list as they've my email address and we use a club card. It doesn't account for volume and just for item count.

So it's tins of tuna every damn time. We go through a fair amount of tuna but it's nowhere near the top of the list on Tescos expenditure. But always shows up as our top purchase as the tins are small.

Same with the playstation. I rarely have the opportunity to play it these days but I have been known to leave it on and walk away and forget about it. So when PS sends me my hours played that they've been profiling they're wrong but I know how they calculated it and it didn't account for being bored of the game time.

I get a bit annoyed at how much profiling is going on and the rise of ML and AI but I work in that industry so it pays my bills too. Some of it can be put to good, we're not all bds, but I do question the future where your privacy or anonymity becomes impossible.