Excuse me, yes. It's .15.
It's between 50%, where you would expect it to be, versus 74% or 65%. So 50% points to the centre of the normal distribution.
The reason for that skew, in other words, the reason for there being more pumps favouring the retailer than the consumer in that data, is curious, and we do not understand the root cause of that skew. We have asked Measurement Canada for their assessment of whether the data is accurate--and they have confirmed it is--and their assessment of why the data is skewed, and they have not offered an explanation, either publicly or to me directly.
The most important thing about data is whether it's statistically representative. That's the first thing that all data has to be established and vetted for. So there are many possible sources of this variance, which is, in my view, not anything close to what has been represented in the press or by others as being a deliberate attempt to manipulate. For example, were those sites that were sampled indeed random, or did they come from customer complaints where there may have been a problem in the calibration? Was it very close to the inspection cycle? Was it two weeks before the inspector was due in and the pump may have worn to the point where it was at that level, versus being inspected halfway through the inspection cycle? Were there already suspicions about some of the retailers who were being assessed by Measurement Canada, and did they target specific retailers in their audits, in their so-called random assessments?
Pumps are mechanical devices. At least one of the popular kinds of pumps in Canada, the Gilbarco pump, wears in favour of the consumer, not in favour of the retailer. The other type of pump, Dresser Wayne, I'm not sure about. We haven't been able to gather that data, but there is a pump, the Tokheim pump, which is no longer being manufactured but is still in place. Those pumps wear in favour of the retailer.
So again, was the data statistically sound, in that was it representative?