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Feb 7th, 2012, 07:25 AM
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ratio maths problem
Hi,
I am trying to figure out this and it should be easy but im confusing myself.
I have a group of 7 men and 3 woman.
The men have taken 4 days sick leave and the women have taken 2 days.
If I say that men have 66.66% of the sick leave (ignoring the ratio of men vs women in the subset)...it is inaccurate as there are more men in the subset.
How would I work out a more exact figure bearing in mind the men vs women.
Thanks for any help...
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Feb 7th, 2012, 10:27 AM
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Feb 7th, 2012, 11:25 AM
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Re: ratio maths problem
Thanks for the reply.
NB i simplified the figures stated to keep my message clear.
I see where you are going saying that i can put the men vs woman ratio as additional info.
But I was sure there was some way to take this into account to get a more accurate representation percentage.
For example, if there was 1 woman and 9 men...and the woman took 12 sick days and the men 13...then it looks inaccurate to me to say men take more sick days than women?
But if thats all i can do...i'll note the men vs woman ratio.
Thanks for your help.
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Feb 7th, 2012, 11:36 AM
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Re: ratio maths problem
What you could do is, give a relation between "sickrate" men and women.
In your example each man would have a "sickrate" of 1.444 days(13/9), each women 9 days. Put them into relation with each other and you get that men have a "sickrate" of 0.16 compared to women (1.444/9).
I guess you were looking at such a number.
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Feb 8th, 2012, 07:19 AM
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Re: ratio maths problem
opus' "sickrate" is probably what you want. I just wanted to mention the units: they're sick days per man and sick days per woman. Given 1 woman with 12 sick days; 9 men with 13 sick days; the men have a sick rate of (13/9) days per man ~= 1.44 days per man, while the women (woman) have a sick rate of 12 days / woman. The female sick rate is then about 12/1.44 = 8.31 times higher than the male one. The ratio of these ratios (which is unitless) may also be what you want.
Last edited by jemidiah; Feb 8th, 2012 at 11:57 AM.
Reason: Corrected; see next post
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Feb 8th, 2012, 07:48 AM
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Re: ratio maths problem
Originally Posted by jemidiah
....The male sick rate is then about 12/1.44 = 8.31 times higher than the female one.
Yes, I did take the wrong value to compare the sick rates (I used the number of men [9] instead of the computed sick rate for women[12]).
However your wording seems to be off, it should read:"The female sick rate is then about 12/1.44 = 8.31 times higher than the male one."
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Feb 8th, 2012, 11:57 AM
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Yes, thank you. It's been edited .
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