Originally Posted by
MasterOMayhem
So with this logic there are varying degrees of fred. the more expensive the bike the greater degree of fred. or it Fred to the nth power.
Interesting; is there a little bit of Fred in everyone? Although, it may indeed be latent. I'm not so quick to assume a linear relationship. I suspect that the likelihood of being a Fred or sub-Fred is indeed a joint distribution. There may be interaction effects such that one is not a Fred even when owning and riding a $10K+ bike.
Going to go for my ride now...while out there, I'll think about the makeup of f(Fred).