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The Three Unexplained Mysteries of Taxi Tipping Behavior

8 点作者 timdierks将近 11 年前

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devindotcom将近 11 年前
As for the $30 point, that may be where a lot of flat fares go - airport for $30, for instance, is probably a common data point.<p>As for the rest, if we&#x27;re looking at cash fares, doesn&#x27;t it seem necessary to examine the most common makeups of bills that would get you to that amount? If someone has all 20s, it&#x27;s easy to tip $10 on a $50 fare. Boom, done. But if it ticks over to $60, perhaps people don&#x27;t want to break that fourth bill, or maybe they don&#x27;t carry more than 3 20s, so rather than pull out the card they just leave no tip, like a jerk.<p>But I don&#x27;t get why cash versus card was not broken out here. Surely tipping habits differ greatly, or at least significantly, between the two methods. Why a card user doesn&#x27;t tip at $60 is likely to be different to why a cash user doesn&#x27;t.
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shalmanese将近 11 年前
It&#x27;d be interesting looking at histograms rather than averages and separating out cash from credit card tips.<p>Most taxi rides, I&#x27;m paying cash because I don&#x27;t want to be bitched out by the taxi driver about using a credit card. With cash, I&#x27;m more concerned about minimizing the amount of change so I&#x27;ll usually do something like hand them a 20 and say &quot;can I get 3&#x2F;4&#x2F;5 dollars back&quot;.<p>That could partially explain some of the weird shapes in the data.
Scoundreller将近 11 年前
I&#x27;m forced to wonder which results are statistically significant.<p>Yet another hypothesis for tips going up in the $20 to $30 range is because for fares over $20, riders may switch to credit card payment where the fare has a clear paper-trail, while tips for fares under $20 are underreported because riders want to get rid of their singles.<p>My conclusion for the results of the study is that rider sympathy for the poor medallion owners of the world varies based on the fare.