There was, furthermore, relatively close agreement among sub-groups of respondents on the differing importance of each of the other losses. This is indicated by the high Kendall u values, which measure the degree of agreement in the perferences among individuals. The null hypothesis, that there is no agreement among the respondents, was rejected in all sub-samples, which generally means that in this case of resource losses in Phangnga Bay, there was significant agreement among respondents, both in the total sample and in all sub-groups.