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Frank and Ernest by Thaves for January 04, 2012
January 03, 2012
January 05, 2012
Transcript:
Frank: Any ideas for addressing our fifty percent defective product rate besides a "buy one/ get one free" sale?
watmiwori about 13 years ago
I’m no mathemetician, God knows, but wouldn’t that mean of at least 50% that you’d get TWO defectives?
fhhuber about 13 years ago
25% get 2 good ones, 25% get 2 bad ones, 50% get one good one.
revisages about 13 years ago
there’s a fine line between 2 to 1 and 2 against 1.
bmonk about 13 years ago
I think his plan is BOGOus.
JayWarner about 13 years ago
fhhuber & richardkel are correct. A visual way to ‘see’ this problem/solution is to lay out coins showing all possible customer purchases. A heads = good and tails = defective. There are 4 possible purchases (1st coin is different than 2nd coin). 1 has no defects, one has two defects, and two have 1 defect.
That said, the cartoon is still funny (at least to me:) The funny (cry type) part comes when you realize that some companies think ‘buy one, get one free’ will cover for defect rates of 1% or 0.1%.
REDROCKER51 about 13 years ago
Victoria Secrets were having an half off sale last week…but it wasn’t what i expected…….
DagNabIt! about 13 years ago
@Jay Warner
Why is it tails is always the defective one? Are you a tail bigot? What do you have against tails?Where’s the ACLU when you need to file a tail discrimination suit?
InTraining Premium Member about 13 years ago
Boss…. I have a great idea… Let’s send production to China…. then no one will expect anything like 100%….! ! !
Loijen about 13 years ago
Heads I win, tails you lose.
Jiblet_VT about 13 years ago
If you are trying to get at least one that is not defective, then the success rate would be 75%: 50% one of them is good; plus 25% both are good, which is better than 50/50.