2001 - Charts and Graphs

This year we thought we would give you an insight into the Peterson Family. Well I guess we pretty much do this every year, but this year we will do it by the numbers. Just a few stats and figures to let you know how this Forbes 500 family keeps it’s edge in this ultra-competitive global economy. So without further ado... here it is, the letter you crave. The letter you can’t live without. The often imitated, never duplicated. Peterson Family Christmas letter. BY THE NUMBERS.

(The Peterson Family Editor apologizes that the graphs and charts could not be reproduced)

Weakest Link

The stats reveal that Chris over the past year has been the weakest link in the household. Donna was right 99% of the time throughout the year. Chris gained his 1% by being right only once during the calendar year. That was when he predicted that Ric Flair would be on Raw is War on November 18th. Which leads us to the statictic that Chris has watched an estimated 185 hours of wrasslin’ in the year 2001. Despite the amount of time watching wrasslin’ and the fact that he is wrong 99% of the time, Chris has yet to be voted out of the household. Early predictions are that he will be voted out in the next calendar year for one thing or another.



Food Monuments

While on vacation this year. The statistic that defines Chris is the amount of monuments, or destinations, that he went out of his way to see. As the pie chart shows, the majority was eating establishments. At 51.3% it was well above seeing places he used to live at 2.5%. Clocking in in third place was amusement. i.e. Rock museums, record stores, amusement parks, and theaters. One thing to note is that friends and family came in in second place at 16.9%. Food is king.



Xmas letter

Let’s start off with a few stats about the letter itself. The world famous letter is sent to the chosen few accross two contries. Canada and the USA. There are as you can see by the wonderful chart on the left, a few more Americans than Canadians on the list. But there are also some of both. Meaning that there is a Canadian and an American in that household. The Peterson family xmas letter is a strong beliver in harmony between both North American contries, EXCEPT when it comes to olympic hockey. Now, the letter is also pro-Green Bay Packers, even though there are according to the chart on the right there are seven and a half Viking fans on the list. The half being the Lucht household. No harmony there on gameday.



Moving
Chris and Donna moved to a new home this year. Which brings stats too numereous to mention all of them. The ones we will mention are, as the graphic shows, in a normal life a person will move 7 times. Chris blows that stat out of the water with a whopping 18 moves. This is 2.07 times over the average. In his lifetime he has moved once every 22 months and has an 87% percent chance of moving again. Chris says the probability of him filling another box for a move is slim to none. Donna clocks in at 11 moves. That is once every 33 months. Considerably less than Chris. She considers a move as exciting. Problably because she does not have to lift everything they own into a truck. Probably.



Celebrities

No chart here, just it seems every year Chris feels the need to name drop and add a picture of himself with some famous wrassler or celebrity. This year it is Frank Zappa’s son, Dweezil. Not a huge celebrity, but a celebrity none the less. I guess we can gleam one stat out of this...The chance of Chris name dropping again next year is about 100%.



Falling

Chris took up a new sport this year. Hockey. The picture to the left is going to be used for his rookie card. Here are a few stats for the back of the card. In 10 games played he has had about 18 shots on goal with 0% going in. His +/- is at +2. Two penalty minutes served for interference with the goalie. And the grandest of all stats, odd on making the NHL - 1 in 1,000,000,000,000. Donna has one hockey stat to add - amount of time spent on his butt is about 50%



Merry Christmas.

For our final section we will give you some stats on the letter you just read. Chris wrote 9 out of 10 sections of this letter. That would be why he is mentioned three times more than Donna, and is featured in the pictures 2 1/2 more times. Never the less we are pleased to share our highlights and lowlights with you this year. In fact we are 60% more pleased. The validity of the statistics is at a confidence interval of 90% plus or minus 20. Unless Chris just made it up. For the exclusive web version of this letter and other events check out our web site at www.dreamwater.com/farleys/. Chance of Chris actually getting this on the web site before 2002 is about 35%. 40% of these greetings might be misspelled - Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Happy Channuchka, Joe You Noel, Maliki Kaliki Maka, Happy New Year. You are all welcome in our home so don’t be a stranger. Chris and Donna God Bless America.



Baby

In case you have not heard, we are expecting a child in May. Some stats to share with this wonderful event are that Chris believes that it is a boy and Donna believes that it is a girl. Chris has a 50% chance of being right and Donna has about a 50% chance. Odds on names that are frontrunners - “The Nature Kid” - 90%, “Loofah” - 45%, “Pat” - 10%, “Farley” - 50%, “Dharma”- 60%, “15” - 15%. Rumours are flying about where the child was conceived. Probability of places are: America 50%, Canada 50%, in a room with a tv 80%. If you look closely in the ultrasound photo you can see the child giving a USA #1 hand-signal. Look again and you might see a toque and a maple leaf.