That would be Saint Devonshire, watcher of the Syncro Westies. He was
recently canonized after years of tireless effort making sure that those
rare creatures were sold to caring homes.  I'm thinking he must be Lutheran
(German Heritage). The number below it refers to the number of minutes
devoted to meditating about that specific Syncro.

Not really, it means STandard DEViation.

TomC
tcarrington@relitech.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davidson [SMTP:wdavidson@THEGRID.NET]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 3:51 PM
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      Re: Syncro Westies:  Asking prices
>
> Malcom,
> What does St Dev. mean?
> Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Malcolm Stebbins <Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.CA>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Date: Thursday, December 02, 1999 10:53 AM
> Subject: Syncro Westies: Asking prices
>
>
> Over the past two years I have been collecting FS notices for Syncro
> Westies from this list and ep.com and a few others.  As I may be selling
> my
> 91 syncro westy, I decided to tabulate the ASKING prices of the FS vans on
> which I have collected data.  In an effort to head off criticism: this is
> not an
> academic study, it is anecdotal at at best and some vans may have been
> counted twice (thrice?) if I didn't catch that it was listed here and
> Ep.com
> and other places.  Also the data is irrespective of milage and condition.
> Price is in US$.  FWIW, here are the summary results and then the raw
> data:
>
> Year    AVG:    St Dev. Count:
> 1986    13,522  1,742   11
> 1987    15,427  1,990   20
> 1988    no data no data 0
> 1989    17,011  1,616   9
> 1990    19,473  4,052   19
> 1991      17,208        3,662            6
>
> Here is all of the data that I have, year, and asking price (x1000):
>
>         86      15.5
>         86      15.5
>         86      15.45
>         86      14.5
>         86      13.9
>         86      13.9
>         86      13
>         86      13
>         86      12
>         86      12
>         86      10
>         87      20
>         87      19
>         87      16.75
>         87      16.5
>         87      16.5
>         87      16.5
>         87      16
>         87      16
>         87      15.9
>         87      15.8
>         87      15.8
>         87      15
>         87      14.8
>         87      14.5
>         87      14.5
>         87      14
>         87      13.5
>         87      13.5
>         87      12
>         87      12
>         89      18
>         89      18
>         89      18
>         89      18
>         89      17.9
>         89      17.9
>         89      16.8
>         89      14.5
>         89      14
>         90      27
>         90      25
>         90      25
>         90      24
>         90      22.9
>         90      22.5
>         90      22
>         90      21.75
>         90      18
>         90      17.75
>         90      17.5
>         90      17.5
>         90      16.9
>         90      16.5
>         90      16.2
>         90      15.5
>         90      15
>         90      15
>         90      14
>         91      22
>         91      21
>         91      17
>         91      16
>         91      14.75
>         91      12.5