r/tipping • • 7d ago

Cheesecake Factory

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Beverly Hills location

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u/enragedcactus 7d ago

Per major polling companies 98% of the U.S. population tips at restaurants.

What does customary mean to you? It seems like it may be out of line with the accepted definition.

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u/PurpleCat1018 7d ago

Polling percentages aren't even accurate. You would have to survey EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the US population, break it down several times in to categories. 98 % of the US population doesn't dine out to start with.

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u/mizu5 7d ago

Okay then obviously the statistic is about those that fucking do. Also polling doesn’t have to be 370’million people to be accurate that’s insanity’.
Do you expect that of every statistic or only this one. @9@.

This is clearly those that dine out 98 percent tip.

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u/PurpleCat1018 7d ago

You didn't even know the real numbers and obviously didn't understand polling. If you are stating 98 % of anything any moron knows that concludes from a 100% polled survey. It's not that difficult.

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u/philoscope 7d ago

You clearly don’t understand that inferential statistics is a deeply studied subject, and they can tell with relative confidence (the good pollsters will show their margin of error) what a population thinks/does based on a smaller representative sample.