When it's cold I sleep in my bathrobe (we call it a "dressing gown" which is a particularly poor name for it as one wears it when not getting dressed!). It has long sleeves, is below the knee in length and snug - very comfortable.
No you couldn't, suppose your A does better in the first market and your B worse (accounting for size) in the second. You choose A. Which does even worse in second market. B was doing the best job for the second market, it is just that market is less open to your product, B would have totally pwned in the first market.
You have to do the A/B within the same market to get useful results.
Use a good enough mix of similar markets and you'll get not-entirely bogus results. The problem you're talking about had occurred to me too, actually, since markets vary widely in climate. Market it in Alaska and people never, not even in the summer, get used to light clothing for long enough to prefer blankets over heavy clothes when on the couch anyway. Market it in Florida and it never gets cold enough to use a blanket. You'd have to control for climate and culture, which across the US would be challenging (to say nothing of the world).
There are ways to do this in the same market though. Something like Vibram FiveFingers is viral enough that you could probably seed like five Vibram wearers in a single market and have each of them refer to the product under a different name. Then track your incoming search queries or orders and match them by market. If more people order "FiveFingers" than "Toe Shoes" than "Foot Gloves" you have yourself a product name.
Well, until someone clever on the internet exposes you. Then you get free publicity as that company that sells the weird shoes and can't decide what to call them.
It's 99% correlated (in line with) the longer test method. OK. Then you learn that there were 77 in the study. So they got the result wrong 1% of the time, for 0.8 of a child?
US date order always makes me laugh - it's like people looked at date order and thought if the day comes before the month that will be the European way, lets flip it. Then they realised that would be YYYY-mm-dd and so be ISO standard order, dang can't have that, hey lets have a mixture.
I know it didn't happen this way but some sort of logical order would be good.
The order is logical, it maps to the way many americans speak. E.g. July 4th, 2000, which is always spoken as ... er... the 4th of july, 2009. Well. uh. Bad example.
I've taken to writing %d %b %Y when possible. It's unambiguous and provides sane ordering. And somehow I find it easier to map from %b to an ordinal than vice versa.
It would be good to hear a logical justification for the mm-dd-yyyy. I'm not sure I can come up with one. It makes it hard to search and it doesn't follow any sequential order. yyyy-mm-dd actually goes up by one each day. Try it next time you have to number give files a date stamp and you'll find it makes your life a lot simpler.
Of course I meant a justification for the mixed up ordering as being of greater utility (more easily parsed, understood, less confused, more easily read, better sorted, more standardised with other users) than the other common orderings.
Let the word go forth ... your logical justification please?
They can request you don't use it as condition for access to their platform - claiming it's a trademark is different. The mark (in the EC at least) needs to be indicative of the origin of goods or services and needs to be distinctive in order to achieve that aim - chat bubbles are not distinctive and are not indicative that Apple Computers Inc. are providing the service. Fail IMO.
Was he homosexual or bisexual - his engagement and his acknowledgement to his fiancée that he had "homosexual tendencies" (eg http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Clarke_J... ) suggests that he was not exclusively attracted to men what actual sexual activity he undertook is not known to men nor I suspect to anyone else who didn't share whatever arena he chose for his affairs.
The manner in which he was arrested rather suggests a honeytrap [I'm speculating here, assess for yourself] - which could account for any animosity of the UK Government, not particularly wanting to reward spies that fell victim to enemy traps. The other point at issue may be that Turing as a 40 year old was picking up teenagers for sex (according to the reports of his arrest) - would someone now be knighted who knowingly followed that sort of promiscuous lifestyle? Would you expect that to be true also in the mid 20th century?
Turing was a great mathematician and left a great legacy in that field, other aspects of his character appear less clear.
