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[Named'em Tamed'em]

miscellaneous trivia

The umbrella was originally invented for women to use for shade 4,000 years ago.
It wasn't until the 1700s that it was socially acceptable for a man to use an umbrella in the rain.

A fellow I know has an umbrella in his gun rack!! I told him that's just wrong

 

[50/50Farms]

I don't understand what you are saying.
Wal-Mart starting qualifications are stricter than Harvard?
or
Wal-Mart receives 97% more applications than job openings?
33.3 applications per hire for Wal-Mart vs 21 student applications per student accepted at Harvard.

How many felons, high school drop outs, GED-only holders, people with no prior education experience, people who have been rejected from other educational institutions, and people who flat out don't even want to go there apply to Harvard? A typical Harvard starting class is around 1,600.

Walmart hires 40,000 employees seasonally alone. There are 4,742 Walmarts in the country, 10,593 worldwide. There's one harvard.

 

[Son of Butch]

A fellow I know has an umbrella in his gun rack!! I told him that's just wrong

In The Good the Bad and the Ugly Eli Wallach used an umbrella (a pink parasol)

 

[50/50Farms]

Walmart doesn't even post their full numbers that I could find, but there's about 1.43 million Walmart jobs per year based on current quit/hire rates. What's 3% of that?

 

[Son of Butch]

A typical Harvard starting class is around 1,600.

Walmart hires 40,000 employees seasonally alone. There are 4,742 Walmarts in the country, 10,593 worldwide. There's one harvard.

So you're saying more people want to work at Wal-Mart than attend Harvard.

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

Walmart doesn't even post their full numbers that I could find, but there's about 1.43 million Walmart jobs per year based on current quit/hire rates. What's 3% of that?

42,900

 

[Son of Butch]

Walmart doesn't even post their full numbers that I could find, but there's about 1.43 million Walmart jobs per year based on current quit/hire rates. What's 3% of that?

Not quit hire rate, applications per hire.

 

[50/50Farms]

Not quit hire rate, applications per hire.

What ever was your point? There's around 1,600-1,700 new Harvard grads every year picked from the top albeit probably with some diversity and equity admissions. Anybody can apply for Walmart with a pulse.

 

[50/50Farms]

Unless you're some kind of socialist, because right now my local Walmart is starting up to $17/hr and in my buddy's town in MT it's $19/hr, so what is your point. There are people in my hometown who have houses because of Wally World, I've met two Harvard grads in my whole life.

 

[Dave]

Unless you're some kind of socialist, because right now my local Walmart is starting up to $17/hr and in my buddy's town in MT it's $19/hr, so what is your point. There are people in my hometown who have houses because of Wally World, I've met two Harvard grads in my whole life.

I am a Harvard graduate. Seven years at Harvard. Well that is if you count kindergarten. It was Harvard elementary school. But I did graduate from Harvard in 1963.

 

[50/50Farms]

I am a Harvard graduate. Seven years at Harvard. Well that is if you count kindergarten. It was Harvard elementary school. But I did graduate from Harvard in 1963.

Not gonna lie to you, you had me for a bit.

 

[Son of Butch]

What ever was your point? Anybody can apply for Walmart with a pulse.

Anyone with $85 can apply to Harvard.

My point was in 2019 Harvard accepted 4.7% of applicants and Wal-Mart hired 3% of applicants.

You were the one that went off on tangent as if quit/hired rates mattered in determining % of applicants hired..
Can you explain that reasoning?

 

[50/50Farms]

Anyone with $85 can apply to Harvard.

My point was in 2019 Harvard accepted 4.7% of applicants and Wal-Mart hired 3% of applicants.

You were the one that went off on tangent as if quit/hired rates mattered in determining % of applicants hired..
Can you explain that reasoning?

Can I? Sure. Will I? Naw. If'n ya don't understand the principle of relative change and difference in statistics and you've made it this far then you likely as not won't need it for the rest of the journey.

 

[Son of Butch]

Can I (explain)? Sure. Will I? Naw.

B.S.
3% is based on 3 hired for every 100 applications received.
4.7% is 4.7 students enrolled for every 100 applications received.
Your idea of scale and quit rates as the reason is wrong and are irrelevant.

 

[Son of Butch]

The average new car interest rate is 5.75%
The average new car monthly payment is $780
16% of new car buyers have a monthly payment of over $1,000

 

[50/50Farms]

B.S.
3% is based on 3 hired for every 100 applications received.
4.7% is 4.7 students enrolled for every 100 applications received.
Your idea of scale and quit rates as the reason is wrong and are irrelevant.

Quantitative data vs qualitative data. Hence the principle. Your statement that anyone with $85 can apply to Harvard is irrelevant. I mentioned quit rates because those fuel replacement rates, everyone who has ever worked for a large company or the federal government knows that retention and replacement drives recruiting, not the other way around. Just because anyone with $85 can apply means nothing Ricky Mullet down in the methnostate with 3 misdemeanors in 3 years isn't applying to Harvard, he's applying to WalMart. What percentage of WalMart applicants have situations, problems, or demographic data (doesn't matter that they aren't supposed to select off of that, they do) that are adverse to recruiting? How many Harvard applicants have children, can only go part time at nights, and need a ride to get there? For both there's pre-qualification factors needed to keep your application from ending up in a shredder, the ones for Harvard are high enough to filter out a lot of people, the one's for WalMart aren't. And I'm not crapping on WalMart employees with this, anyone who has ever worked in a large retail, manufacturing, or service environment that has a modicum of critical thinking ability can go hang out around the hiring office and take note of who comes in and who gets the jobs and start correlating that data. To rely on numbers alone for anything is a fool's errand, this is very similar to the statistical argument used to infer that women are safer drivers than men across the board.

 

[Son of Butch]

this is very similar to the statistical argument used to infer that women are safer drivers than men

2016-2017 fatal car crashes per 100 million miles driven, for male drivers was 63% higher than for women per 100 million miles driven.
(After age 30 fatal crashes were nearly identical for both genders per miles driven)
males under the age 30 are the most dangerous drivers on the road, especially to pedestrians and bicyclists

source* iihs fatality-statistics

 

[50/50Farms]

2016-2017 fatal car crashes per 100 million miles driven, for male drivers was 63% higher than for women per 100 million miles driven.
(After age 30 the numbers were nearly identical)

source* iihs fatality-statistics

God bless your wife, 'ol son.

 

[Son of Butch]

God bless your wife, 'ol son.

50/50 when you're wrong..... you're wrong by a mile

 

[50/50Farms]

50/50 when you're wrong..... you're wrong by a mile

Does that study account for the number of men who drive commercial or heavy equipment vehicles for a living, times most often spent in transit, amount of time driven in a stretch, and road systems driven on? I was going to break contact, but you've baited me back in. If a study or statistic can't show me any qualitative data to go with the quantitative then it's no good for anything other than a reference point.