{"id":11582,"date":"2014-10-17T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11582"},"modified":"2014-10-17T07:51:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:51:36","slug":"what-is-the-optimal-time-to-show-up-at-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/what-is-the-optimal-time-to-show-up-at-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Optimal Time To Show Up At A Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/101714_0406_WhatIsTheOp1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An equation that tells you exactly when to arrive at a party to not be weird. What a ridiculous idea! Why, the only people who would use that are those who break out in a cold sweat wondering if they&#8217;ll be socially ostracized for being late, or awkwardly gawked at for being the first ones there. People who&#8217;ll map the location in advance to find the closest Starbucks so that they have a place to retreat too if no one else is there. People who will write a bulletin about it for an &#8220;economics&#8221; website so that they can easily find it in the unlikely scenario that someone invites them to a Halloween event.<\/p>\n<p>*Ahem*. Walt Hickey wrote:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The chaps at FiveThirtyEight organized a crowd sourced experiment to figure out when people show up to parties.<\/li>\n<li>They found that the median individual shows up to a party 58 minutes after it was meant to begin.<\/li>\n<li>But it depends on the size of the party. In those that have fewer than 23 attendees, the median guest is only 29 minutes late.<\/li>\n<li>Those with more than 25, the median person comes 70 minutes into the event.<\/li>\n<li>As a general rule of thumb, if you want to be the median guest to arrive, show up 42 minutes late, allowing for an additional 4 minutes for every ten members attending.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the caveats about the data, the 9% of people who arrive before a party begins, and see some excellent graphs and visualizations, as well as additional trends <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/how-to-estimate-when-people-will-arrive-at-a-party\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/how-to-estimate-when-people-will-arrive-at-a-party\/\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An equation that tells you exactly when to arrive at a party to not be weird. What a ridiculous idea! Why, the only people who would use that are those who break out in a cold sweat wondering if they&#8217;ll be socially ostracized for being late, or awkwardly gawked at for being the first ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/101714_0406_WhatIsTheOp1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11582"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11590,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582\/revisions\/11590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}