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> A 2019 study of 40 million Uber rides found that 16% of rides received tips > Sixty-one percent [of US adults] said they [tipped] for taxi or ride-hailing se

by bhaney 3y ago

> A 2019 study of 40 million Uber rides found that 16% of rides received tips > Sixty-one percent [of US adults] said they [tipped] for taxi or ride-hailing services hmm

anon84873628 3y ago
An explanation for the seeming discrepancy could be that the non-tippers take more rides. This would make sense, for example, if there is a population of people who take Uber very frequently (say to commute in a city) and don't usually tip. Perhaps precisely because they use the service so frequently and don't want to pay extra, or because they see the variation in driver quality and want to reserve tips for the best service. Whereas infrequent riders (say to and from the airport) are more likely to tip universally.
abhorrence 3y ago
Could easily be that the 39% of adults that don't tip take an outsized portion of the rides.
RandomBacon 3y ago
Both can be true at the same time. rides ≠ rideRs If the group that does not tip takes significantly more rides than the group that does tip, then this makes sense. It also makes sense that people who use the service more might be less likely to want to pay more for each trip (tip on top of the ride cost), whereas people who almost never use the service might be inclined to tip each time. Also, those statistics are comparing different things. One is about Uber, the other is about all taxis and ride-sharing services.
tmnvix 3y ago
Could it be that the first statistic relates to global rides? I tried to find out by following the links to the study but was unsuccessful.
- bhaney 3y ago
  The link-chain from the article 404s, but the paper is relatively easy to find [1]. Appears to also be US-only. I'm assuming the same connection that other replies are mentioning - that a non-tipping minority of the rider population represents a disproportionately large majority of rides. I only found it interesting because of how easy it is to broadcast either perspective depending on the response you want. Individuals and media reports can pick and choose between "a majority of people tip" and "less than 1/6th of rides are tipped" and be factually correct either way while giving off entirely different impressions. [1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26380/w26380.pdf https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26380/w263...
presidentender 3y ago
It is possible that the sixty-one percent tip for a vanishing but nonzero minority of rides.

by bhaney 3y ago

> A 2019 study of 40 million Uber rides found that 16% of rides received tips > Sixty-one percent [of US adults] said they [tipped] for taxi or ride-hailing services hmm

anon84873628 3y ago

An explanation for the seeming discrepancy could be that the non-tippers take more rides. This would make sense, for example, if there is a population of people who take Uber very frequently (say to commute in a city) and don't usually tip. Perhaps precisely because they use the service so frequently and don't want to pay extra, or because they see the variation in driver quality and want to reserve tips for the best service. Whereas infrequent riders (say to and from the airport) are more likely to tip universally.

abhorrence 3y ago

Could easily be that the 39% of adults that don't tip take an outsized portion of the rides.

RandomBacon 3y ago

Both can be true at the same time. rides ≠ rideRs If the group that does not tip takes significantly more rides than the group that does tip, then this makes sense. It also makes sense that people who use the service more might be less likely to want to pay more for each trip (tip on top of the ride cost), whereas people who almost never use the service might be inclined to tip each time. Also, those statistics are comparing different things. One is about Uber, the other is about all taxis and ride-sharing services.

tmnvix 3y ago

Could it be that the first statistic relates to global rides? I tried to find out by following the links to the study but was unsuccessful.

bhaney 3y ago
The link-chain from the article 404s, but the paper is relatively easy to find [1]. Appears to also be US-only. I'm assuming the same connection that other replies are mentioning - that a non-tipping minority of the rider population represents a disproportionately large majority of rides. I only found it interesting because of how easy it is to broadcast either perspective depending on the response you want. Individuals and media reports can pick and choose between "a majority of people tip" and "less than 1/6th of rides are tipped" and be factually correct either way while giving off entirely different impressions. [1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26380/w26380.pdf https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26380/w263...

presidentender 3y ago

It is possible that the sixty-one percent tip for a vanishing but nonzero minority of rides.