In Figure 13, we test the relationship between the distance travelled and the Customer Sophistication: we calculate the average distance travelled by customers (y axis) to get to the shop against their sophistication value (x axis).
As in the previous cases, each product p is associated with a sophistication value (sigma_{p}), with σ̅ we refer to the median of this distribution, and p's sophistication class (S_{p}) is calculated as: S_{p} = textstylebegin{cases} 1, & text{if } sigma_{p} > overline{sigma}, 0, & text{otherwise.} end{cases}.
Different exploits are authorized against different targets, depending on the value of the target, the target's technical sophistication, the value of the exploit, and other considerations.
As this is a measure of revealed sophistication, associated with the real income of the countries, it is possible to find that products such as animal skins have a high sophisticated value.
His entire life was a celebration of urbane values, sophistication and the rigorous and constant application of intellect.
It may be that what we want in a city car is personality and sophistication -- city values -- rather than any package of size or power or convenience.
Grand Theft Auto IV may have marked a watershed in the public profile of games, but its level of sophistication and production values – albeit not quite its budget – has increasingly become the rule rather than the exception.
Unfortunately for Parker, elegance and sophistication are not values shared by many of those in the film industry, to which she returned two years ago when Sex And The City ended.
Israel has become more nationalistic than ever; mainstream Israelis no longer care about liberal values, sophistication and sensitivity for other ethnicities, races and religions.
They value sophistication above almost anything, and so they regard their own hyperactive president, Nicolas Sarkozy, with his messy romantic life and model-singer wife, as "Sarko the American".
Such linear thinking might have seductive appeal for politicians on a short electoral leash but I think we are fortunate in the UK in having progressed the political debate to a level of sophistication where the value of funding curiosity-led research is widely-acknowledged.
