The coefficients on distance and time were nearly identical in all 3 regimes: 82 cents per mile, plus 27–28 cents per minute. The intercept for the Q2 regime was around 30 cents higher than for the other periods, which amounts to a bit over 2% of the average $13 fare....
And if the researcher told me that they don’t know how many samples were taken per stall, then I would tell them that they cannot make a figure like this. It would be ultimately misleading and unscientific to present incomplete data. I'm a bit surprised that this basic principle failed ...
If I'm extremely motivated I may try to challenge the brief and go the extra mile, but I don't have to. I may just answer the brief, do whatever was "good enough" and hopefully get paid. If I'm out of ideas, I can always do whatever the client asks me to do. Of course the...