Most islanders would not book a Facebook taxi, survey finds
Thursday 31st January 2013, 1:00PM GMT.
Many young adults surveyed by the Guernsey Press in Town yesterday said they had organised lifts through friends online but 11 out of 50 said they would consider booking a ‘Facebook taxi’ from a complete stranger.
Around 20% of island residents would risk booking an illegal taxi online, a Guernsey Press survey has revealed.
Some 11 out of 50 young adults surveyed in Town yesterday said they would consider booking a ‘Facebook taxi’ from a complete stranger.
Many of those polled said they had organised lifts through friends online.
But a large majority labelled it ‘too dangerous’ to book a lift from a complete stranger advertising their services through the social media site.
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I dont think that 11 people constitutes “most islanders”
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In other news: at least 1% of the population can’t do simple math.
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Or cannot spell. Cannot do simple maths!
We live on the correct side of the Atlantic
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Correct, we islanders have a bad habit of misspelling, it must be due to the terrible GCSE results, La Mare only had a 11.5 percent pass rate in 2011! I’d be happy to provide some real life examples for a scholar such as yourself.
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MATHS- with an ‘S’.
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I think you’ll find that Nick Le P will be able to prove that it DOES !
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If there was a ‘like’ button I’d press it!
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Missed the survey MP
This is a nasty one
Cheaper? yes but at what cost?
So an “illegal” taxi driver has an accident and you the passenger get injured.
What next?
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Shouldnt that read, around 20% of those surveyed, not 20% of Island residents?
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Ive not seen one cab with “FACEBOOK” and “for hire” .. Am I missing something ?? Surely its not difficult just to pull in those cars with a “FACEBOOK” sign as shown in the picture above…
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And I’d press it for this post too!
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What a stupid waste of time to only survey 50 people.
What it shows is that on an average night in town out of 3000 people,600 of them would think about getting into an illegal taxi at the end of the night,(and thats probably at the lower end of the scale to be fair), it will be discussed here until someone is injured and does not get a penney because the driver was not insured, and then discussed some more ….pointless.
Guernsey is no different to anywhere else in the world, this is not a news story, we were getting illegal taxis in Ibiza 15 years ago because of the price of liscensed taxis, why are some people treating it with shock over here ?
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As Spike Milligan said “88% of statistics are made up on the spot”
Bit silly to do a survey with only 50 people.
A lot of surveys / comparisons are in fact pointless as either the sample size is too small (as above) or the comparison is not applicable.
It like when the police announce the drink driving stats over the festive people in the New Year. I think this year it went up from 7 arrests in 2011 to 14 arrests in 2012. Police have advised that they are disappointed in the rise from the previous year.
Was there a rise in drink driving though or just the number that got caught?
In 2011, there could have been 500 people drink driving, of which 7 were caught.
In 2012, if 14 people were arrested out of 20 that were actually drink driving, then the police can say they were getting their point across and the campaign was working, even though arrests doubled (20 is still too many btw)
As somebody far more intellegent than me said “You can make statistics prove anything”
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The word “many” has a different meaning to the word “most.” FACT
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