[1354] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: tech a little confused on the numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Gray)
Fri Aug 30 16:48:34 2002
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:29:01 -0400
From: Tony Gray <tgray@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <y688z2ob93t.fsf@multics.mit.edu>
David Maze:
>So only about 300 frosh (out of a thousand or so) requested
>reassignment at all?
In fact, as the Tech reported, only 140 frosh requested a change.
(This part of the Tech article was accurate.) The totals you are
referring to counted *all* choices. Among the 140 students requesting
a change, there were 132 1st choices, 95 2nd choices, and 60 3rd
choices. It is interesting because only 14 people who ranked all
three dorms were unable to move, and half of those were in Senior
House which, because only 4 people wanted to move in, was a very hard
place to leave.
Another way to look at it is: the lottery accommodated 88% of non-SH
people who wanted to move and used all three of their ranking
options. (Counting SH, the lottery accommodated 77% of such people.)
The larger question of why so many people decided to stay where they
were -- including 75% of those who actually logged into the lottery
web site and 'actively' squatted -- remains, though I suspect that
Josiah's hypothesis is close to the mark.
Sorry for any confusion.
Best,
-- Tony
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