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This is a question for my stats project. Im doing a statistical analysis of this data. The question is:

For a normal college dorm once you push the button to call the elevator how long do you expect to wait for the elevator to pick you up?

8 seconds.

Fewer than 60 seconds.

.000072239023829 x 10^5 seconds

30 seconds tops

Elevators? You lucky bastards.

where the hell did you guys live? 9th floor blows

at 3 am: less than 30 secs

at 10:45 am: somewhere between 1:30 and 3:00

why are college students using elevators?

back in my day, college students preferred to walk up and down steps. boy, have you become lazy! back in m y day, people would walk up the steps of the statue of liberty, Bunker hill and teh Washington monument, the Effil tower, the sears tower and the twins tower at the playboy Club.

only old geesers, parents and the maintenance workers would be found on the elevators.

the frats and sororities never had elevators except for their food and clothes elevators. riding those elevators was kind of fun except if you were over 250 pounds and the elevator ropes broke.

back in my day people could afford to pay for their gas with cash in their pockets and not credit cards and we'd have cash left over to pay for a date and dinner too.

back in my day the Bucks won an NBA championship.

Depends on the time of day and how many elevators are out of order.

I seem to remember you could bank on ~60 sec on average.

DrugBust wrote:Elevators? You lucky bastards.

Granted I don't go to UW-Milwaukee, and I'm not sure if any of the previous respondents do either, but 24 floors and no elevator would pretty much be an engineering embarrassment.

If you're in a stats class doing a statistical analysis of this data, shouldn't you be taking into consideration how many floors are in these peoples' buildings? Obviously it's going to be a longer wait on average when there are 24 floors than when there are 3.

Not trying to step on your toes, it just seems misleading without that data.

MikeIsGood wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



Granted I don't go to UW-Milwaukee, and I'm not sure if any of the previous respondents do either, but 24 floors and no elevator would pretty much be an engineering embarrassment.

If you're in a stats class doing a statistical analysis of this data, shouldn't you be taking into consideration how many floors are in these peoples' buildings? Obviously it's going to be a longer wait on average when there are 24 floors than when there are 3.

Not trying to step on your toes, it just seems misleading without that data.

Ahh. I went to a school where I think the highest building had five floors.

what ? a stats project with misleading data? say it's so.


are you trying to say that the elevator at UWM may take longer tha n the one at Wiley hall in Purdue because the Wiley hall elevator only goes up 3 floors verses the 24 story tower?

I've also noticed in some hotels an elevator will go to the closest request rather tha n going al l the wa y down and the n back up again. So an elevator might start by going up to the 8th floor, the n dow n to the 6th floor and then up to the 7th floor and then back down to the 6th floor before it ever comes all the way down to the second floor. Sometimes it skips the 13th floor alltogether. I found that very annoying, yet interesting and worthy of further study.

Back in my day we had elevator verses stairs races. the elevators in Selery hall at UW were so slow, we'd just go to the stairs and race the people using the elevator. the people using the stairs would usually win. A lot of times, the administration would secretly put the elevators out of service and people would just stand there for hours. or maybe that was the engineering frat Triangle that placed them out of service.

1 min.

well at 9:30 last night i actually counted and it took 1:23 for the elevator to get to me