J.D Membership Demographic - The Real Poll
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windingtrailgal
Active member
262 is more than I would have thought for the off season here. Nice turn out. Thanks for posting the poll. I like the stats too! 
favoritos
Well-known member
Statistically, those numbers are a bugger to follow. So you are saying that there is an 80% chance of 90%?
BTW Frnash, good luck on the hip update. Those surgeries have really improved over the past years. Just remember to carry your card when you get to the airport.
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lenny
Guest
not to many toddlers just as I thought
just as I thought
skiroule
Well-known member
I'm impressed that you gave this some thought. You must have been one of those kids that were good at "word problems". It was a goofy way of saying it, but it was really just two predictions of the same outcome - not a true compound probability.
Count is currently at 293, I wonder who will be lucky number 300?
favoritos
Well-known member
Someone was the lucky 3 hondo.
Skiroule, I can tell you that I hate reading instruction manuals. Products not aimed at the mainstream public have manuals written by the design team. Those things read like code.
Back to the demographics. Looks like most of us fit in the largest groups.
Skiroule, I can tell you that I hate reading instruction manuals. Products not aimed at the mainstream public have manuals written by the design team. Those things read like code.
Back to the demographics. Looks like most of us fit in the largest groups.
polarisrider1
New member
Very good point. A lot of my JDee buddies for the most part are in denial that we are in the 50 and up club.
bearrassler
Well-known member
Someone was the lucky 3 hondo.
Back to the demographics. Looks like most of us fit in the largest groups.
Wouldn't that always be the case?
favoritos
Well-known member
It was a joke. Most will be in the largest groups, that is how they get to be the largest.
The new smiley faces do not seem to work as good as the old format.
bearrassler
Well-known member
It was a joke. Most will be in the largest groups, that is how they get to be the largest.
The new smiley faces do not seem to work as good as the old format.
Mine was a joke also, I knew what you meant.
skiroule
Well-known member
Back to the demographics. Looks like most of us fit in the largest groups.
Faces are working fine - First big chuckle of the day.
I think the comments about the 50+ group may have merit. The 50 - 59 group came out of the gate like gangbusters but have fallen off the pace somewhat. Maybe those in real denial are voting in the 30 - 39 option.
windingtrailgal
Active member
I say post it again when there's snow on the trails and see what the difference is then. Think that would be interesting. Should get bigdaddy and little racer to vote as well. They don't come here in the off season....well, it's pretty much me coming in here all the time then too!
Guilty!! All I can say is I was in the 20-29 category when i signed up!! So there!!
skiroule
Well-known member
Slim, it's a technicality. It won't hold up in court.
Windingtrailgal: I give up!. I promise that I or someone else will post a similar poll in prime time, say around the third week in January. I guess it's not like I'm in danger of having to move to an older bracket. I agree the in-season/off-season comparison would be interesting.
What occurred to me after I started this is that the poll is really reflecting the makeup of the group of people that are more or less year-around residents of Deeville, or at least frequent summer visitors.
Right now, it looks like the 40 - 49er's are pretty much looking in their rear view mirror.
Windingtrailgal: I give up!. I promise that I or someone else will post a similar poll in prime time, say around the third week in January. I guess it's not like I'm in danger of having to move to an older bracket.
I agree the in-season/off-season comparison would be interesting.What occurred to me after I started this is that the poll is really reflecting the makeup of the group of people that are more or less year-around residents of Deeville, or at least frequent summer visitors.
Right now, it looks like the 40 - 49er's are pretty much looking in their rear view mirror.
bobsledder
New member
I recently had my 12th birthday for the 4th time! I am way to immature to this old!
bobsledder
bobsledder
prob has something to do with confusing the VCR with the computer.or not being Abel to figure out how to load the paper in to the new fangled typewriter to use it
skiroule
Well-known member
Every time I think I've got Ezra dialed in, he comes up with one of these gems. I bow to the master.
P.S. Thanks everyone for your continued input. The rotund lady has yet to sing but she might be going through the scales right now.
skiroule
Well-known member
Behind the Numbers
After a couple of weeks I think the voting trend is sufficiently established to make a couple of observations (I hadn’t intended for the poll to run this long – operator error). Besides, if the results change dramatically by the time the poll closes, I’m sure I’ll be able to explain why I was wrong.
It looks like the 40 – 49 group rules! On the younger side, the 30 – 39 group is right on their heels but after 49 there is about a 15% drop for every decade of riding. Hard to say if this is true in general. Out of sheer favoritism I originally thought the numbers in the 60+ group might be a little higher. Looking at it realistically though, 7.5% is a pretty respectable showing, considering most, if not all members in this group have probably had a 40 year involvement in the sport. I don’t think long duration involvement is as common in motorsports as say, golf. I can say that if I were in the <20 group I’d probably have some kind of shirt made up – only 1% could claim this category.
The statistic that jumps out at me is that almost 94% of the responding voters are 30 or over. This is somewhat baffling. Maybe someone in the 20 -29 group can speculate on the reasons for unexpectedly low numbers in that range. The only thing I can think of is that this group might be more seasonally intensive and are may use this site differently than a lot of us off-season users.
In the grand scheme of things, I guess it was a relatively small (but important) sample but I think it gave me the answer to my question and a new perspective on the off-season crowd.
The only question now is that if I were in marketing, would I run more or less dating service trailers in the off-season?
Thanks everyone and if you haven’t voted, by all means do so. I’ll note the final numbers after the poll closes for comparison this winter.
After a couple of weeks I think the voting trend is sufficiently established to make a couple of observations (I hadn’t intended for the poll to run this long – operator error). Besides, if the results change dramatically by the time the poll closes, I’m sure I’ll be able to explain why I was wrong.
It looks like the 40 – 49 group rules! On the younger side, the 30 – 39 group is right on their heels but after 49 there is about a 15% drop for every decade of riding. Hard to say if this is true in general. Out of sheer favoritism I originally thought the numbers in the 60+ group might be a little higher. Looking at it realistically though, 7.5% is a pretty respectable showing, considering most, if not all members in this group have probably had a 40 year involvement in the sport. I don’t think long duration involvement is as common in motorsports as say, golf. I can say that if I were in the <20 group I’d probably have some kind of shirt made up – only 1% could claim this category.
The statistic that jumps out at me is that almost 94% of the responding voters are 30 or over. This is somewhat baffling. Maybe someone in the 20 -29 group can speculate on the reasons for unexpectedly low numbers in that range. The only thing I can think of is that this group might be more seasonally intensive and are may use this site differently than a lot of us off-season users.
In the grand scheme of things, I guess it was a relatively small (but important) sample but I think it gave me the answer to my question and a new perspective on the off-season crowd.
The only question now is that if I were in marketing, would I run more or less dating service trailers in the off-season?
Thanks everyone and if you haven’t voted, by all means do so. I’ll note the final numbers after the poll closes for comparison this winter.