Right in the midst of the pot stirring these last few weeks, huh Gig?

This was somewhat of an inside joke between this redneck "Bob" and my buddy Ken, one and the same. I'll amend my post if it makes you happy. Keep your politics away please. (Though my guess is that Bob is a concealed carrying conservative republican)

Tight lines,
Jackson

Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of '96

P.S. Great survey Mark.

I'm an East Texas Redneck trapped in a 6 Foot One Inch Korean's body!!

Mercury is the leading motor, Skeeter is the most popular?

With over 100k registered members and only 500 participants in the survey, I don't think you could call the results a TFF "average" by any means. A small sampling of members who chose to participate yes, an overall average nope.

Not surprising, you see far more Merc's on bass boats than any other brand.

Peopke are scratchingntheir heads because they assume that since Skeeter is the most popular boat per the survey and they do t come with mercuries, that another outboard manufacturer should have placed 1st there.


They fail to understand that if the skeeters have no mercs and lets say have were evinrude and half yamaha, that still leaves the rest of all boats to potentially have mercury out oatbard, which are well knwn as the #1 selling oytboard so...


See my previous post for a brief glimps into how the data should be more accurately represented in a broader spectrum. Based solely off of mode, we don't get a fully accurate picture of the landscape of the data set.

Sure the largest slice own skeetersbut there werewhat, 9 options and other? So 10 slices of the pie at least, that could mean as little as 11% have skeeters but we say the average gu Bob (not an accurate statement) has a skeeter when really only 1 in 9 have a skeeter. There is no way to average boat brands or outboard brands, but the way age and household income were portrayed as averges when they are simply the mode not the mean or even median is very flawed data presentation.

I guarantee you that the average income across our lovely forum is not north of 6 figures. I'd wager the true "average" Bob has less income than me and countless times more debt.

I would love to see the raw data and help present it in a few more realistic ways. Marketting is a hell of a thing, we could make the same set of data show multile very different "Bob"s as I have already putlined.

Processed data is not the same as raw data. Take it with a grain of salt.

This same reasoning I have provided is also how we end up with elected officials without majority support. The difference between A majority of votes vs. THE majority of votes. This type of polling almost guarantees that no category will have anywhere close to 51%+ of votes. Alternative vote > first past the post.