These data were collected Feb. 1-5, 2013, relevant to this post on The Splintered Mind.

1. On the top row of the snack shelf in the UC Riverside convenience store: x = listed net weight in grams, y = listed calories per serving times number of servings in item.

2. Ivy leaves examined outside the UCR student center: x = height of leaf from stem joint to tip (in cm), y = width of leaf from tip of 2nd finger to tip of 4th finger.

3. In Rivera Library at UCR, starting with the shelf containing call number BD1: x = height of shelf off floor (1-7), y = number on last numbered page of the first book on that shelf.

4. On the outside terrace of the third floor of the building containing the UCR Philosophy Department: x = direction of gaze, starting with 0 = toward a telephone pole, then adding 1 for each cm's worth of rotation northward, as measured by a ruler held at arm's length, y = angular height of horizon ridge above the horizontal railing as measures in cm on that ruler held at arm's length.

5. Using eleven randomly selected countries from the Wikipedia list of countries: x = natural log of the area of the country in 1000s of square km, y = natural log of the 2010 estimated population in millions.

6. For the eleven closest stars (excluding the sun and the dimmer siblings of double stars), x = the distance of the star in light years, y = the apparent magnitude of the star.

7. Looking in the residential listings in an old phone book in my office: x = the number of letters in the person's name, y = the last 4 digits of the phone number.

8. Looking at the publicly listed 2011 salary for Philosophy Professors at UCLA: x = year of PhD (excluding faculty for whom that information was not easily discoverable), y = salary.

9. Looking at the 11 most recently reviewed books in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: x = price as listed for me at Amazon, y = Amazon sales rank.

10. Looking at 11 randomly selected elements from the periodic table: x = atomic number, y = standard atomic weight.

11. Looking at medium sized sticks gathered from my back yard (not all of the same species): x = length in inches, y = weight in grams.

12. Looking at the 11 most populous cites in the world as listed by urban area population on Wikipedia: x = population in thousands, y = latitude.

13. Looking at the 11 most populous cities in the world again: x = latitude, y = mean annual daily high temperature.

14. Looking at the Google Scholar page for David Lewis, 11 randomly selected entries among the top 100 entries: x = natural log of the number of citations, y = listed year of publication.

15. Looking at the Wikipedia aggregate ranking of U.S. Presidents as judged by surveys of historians: x = President number, y = ranking.

16. Looking at the USDA nutritional information on fruit, alphabetically starting with A: x = grams of sugar per ounce of fruit, y = milligrams of potassium per ounce of fruit.

17. Looking at AboutCoins website, value of uncirculated Lincoln pennies without D or S mark: x = year starting in 1918, y = listed value in dollars.

18. World population, every five years starting in 2010 and going backward: x = year, y = population.

19. Looking at MapQuest search results from my house to McDonald's restaurants in Riverside, first 11 hits: x = driving distance in miles, y = estimated driving time.

20. Looking at Weather.com at 8:39 a.m. on Feb. 5, hourly weather forecast: x = hour of day on 24 hour clock, y = forecasted temperature in Fahrenheit.

21. Looking at unopened glass jars in my cabinet, without repeating types: x = net weight in grams as listed on label, y = measured gross weight on kitchen scale.

22. Looking at the roster for the San Francisco 49ers, Feb. 1, alphabetically from A: x = height in inches, y = weight in pounds.

23. Looking at the grades in my 2011 Philosophy of Mind course, alphabetically by student from A: x = average of the student's two essay grades on the 4-point scale, y = raw score on the final exam.

24. Looking at philosophers with dedicated entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, reverse-alphabetically from Z, only philosophers with exact birthyear listed: x = natural log of 2013 minus birthyear, y = deathyear minus birthyear.

25. Looking at BigCharts historical closing price for the Standard & Poor 500 index for past 11 days (as of Feb. 1): x = number of days past, y = SPX closing price.

26. Looking at Philosophers Index search results for AB=Wittegenstein: x = year starting with 2000, y = number of hits.

27. Looking at Wikipedia's 11 longest rivers in the world: x = length in km, y = drainage area in 1000s of square km.

28. Looking down at the 215/60 Freeway eastbound on Feb. 1 starting at 5:35 p.m., counting number of cars per 30-second interval. x = time of day in 30-second intervals with 1 = 5:35 p.m., y = number of eastbound cars crossing past a telephone pole.

29. Looking at the top-grossing movies in the U.S. in 2012: x = natural log of the number of theaters, y = natural log of gross earnings.

30. Taking jpeg photos of my office, starting in my desk chair facing a bookshelf, then rotating right by enough so that the next picture contains about half of the angular area contained by the previous picture: x = rotation in series (first picture = 1), y = KB size of the resulting JPG file.

Update, Feb. 7:

I find myself thinking that the log conversions are insufficiently "stupid" and could be interpreted as stacking the deck against Wild values. I included them because I collected the data originally with curve fitting in mind and I saw that some of the x-values would arguably overleverage the curve (e.g., Xenocrates's birthyear), and that put me in a logarithmic frame of mind.

So I revise the variables thus:

5'. Using eleven randomly selected countries from the Wikipedia list of countries: x = the area of the country in 1000s of square km, y = the 2010 estimated population in millions.

14'. Looking at the Google Scholar page for David Lewis, 11 randomly selected entries among the top 100 entries: x = number of citations, y = listed year of publication.

24'. Looking at philosophers with dedicated entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, reverse-alphabetically from Z, only philosophers with exact birthyear listed: x = 2013 minus birthyear, y = deathyear minus birthyear.

29'. Looking at the top-grossing movies in the U.S. in 2012: x = the number of theaters, y = gross earnings.

Using these delogged data and a Wildness criterion of 10, I find 7 wild out of 270 (3%) plus 1 flipped sign (3% total). With a wildness criterion of 2, I find 39 wild (14%), including the flipped sign. In other words, virtually the same as the 2% and 13% in the original post. The explanation for the lack of increase is that the log conversions though they reduce Wild values on the high side can increase wild values and sign-flips on the low side.