Bean Curd has emerged to be the most popular dessert choice of our readers with 53.4% followed by Cheng Tng 44.5% and Orh Nee 36.9%.
The hot favourite of the previous generation, Ice Kachang only managed to come in at 4th place with 31% followed closely in fifth place by Tau Suan 26.5%
Full analysis of the results can be found here.
Thanks to all 2041 readers who polled!
i am wondering how does your percentages work? since it dosent add up to 100%.
ReplyDeletewith each reader having 3 choices, does it mean its 53.4/300% voted for bean curd, if my math don;t serve me wrong?
Tau Suan's sixth, I reckon, with Ah Balling ahead of it.
ReplyDeletesumosumo - dodgy math ;) A percentage is always out of 100. You don't add up the scores since there's cross voting among the categories from a single voter. Comprends ?
Anyway, the poll probably serves only to reflect the demographics of visitors to the site.
Perhaps a maths expert can look at the results more carefully and let us know how it all works?
ReplyDeletewow! i didn't know bee curd so popular! but i love them too. so will you be coming out with a list of place to go for bean curd?
ReplyDeleteHm, of the 6 places listed under your bean curd label, i only tried the one at bukit timah, i like theirs. but then, haven try the other "famous" ones. haha
i dont know have you ever try turkish desert before .if you try you know what i wanna mean.if you donT here is the links
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pedant - exactly why i m trying to figure out the math. there is cross voting since each person gets 3 choices.
ReplyDeletebut if u look at the percentages: beancurd - 53.4%, cheng tng 44.5% and orh nee 36.9%... it dosent add up to 100%. something wrong with the percentages. how does the math work?
what i suspect - is it 53.4 out of 300 votes for BC, 44.5 out of 300 for CT and 36.9 out of 300 for ON? and hence the % is wrong in the first place?
not sure how the poll tallies up the results.
I think that it simply means that of the 2000 odd voters, 53.4% of them voted for Bean curd as one of their choices, 44.5% voted Cheng Tng and so on.
ReplyDeleteThen it makes sense.
ok then that makes sense.
ReplyDeleteas in each choice is an independent % of all the votes.
sumosumo - Okay, maybe I should've elaborated a bit more.
ReplyDeleteAs I've said, a percentage is always out of a hundred, by definition. Perhaps this helps: the 2041 figure (100%) is the total number of voters, not votes. Each voter can vote in one, two or three categories. And since the categories are possibly non-mutually exclusive, it's not meaningful to add up the percentages, i.e. they won't total up to 100%. If every voter had picked the maximum of three desserts exactly, then you should get 300%. But even then, to say it's 53.4/300% is not quite right.
A numerical example:
Categories - WP, SPP, RP
Scenario 1:
Voters can only choose one.
Voter A - WP
Voter B - SPP
Voter C - WP
Total voters = 3
Total votes = 3
WP - 67%
SPP - 33%
RP - 0%
Adds up to 100%
Scenario 2:
Voters can choose up to three.
Voter A - WP, SPP, RP
Voter B - WP
Voter C - WP, SPP
Total voters = 3
Total votes = 6
WP - 3/3 * 100% = 100%
SPP - 2/3 * 100% = 67%
RP - 1/3 * 100% = 33%
Doesn't add up to 100%
What the 67% meant is 67% of all voters chose SPP, but some of them could have voted for another one.
Hope I'm not complicating things ;)
Okay then, back to tau huay and tau suan.
CHENG TNG ROCKS
ReplyDeleteHave you had yours today? *wink*
cheng tnnnnngggg........
ReplyDeleteshucks man can we have this poll again. I would love to take part.
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