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Originally Posted by airdave
Ruben, I have found age to only be a factor...
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... thats why I said gerhard's 100 downloaders would offer an acceptable cross-section of modellers.
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Understood.
And your experience and observations may be right. As anyone with some time
spent on the different forums may have seen some similar phenomena.
I agree completely on what you say in your message.
However, my point originally challenged the validity of a tool that doesn't
answer the question:
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why paper modeling wasn't a hobby-subject for youngsters although it's
cheap and challenging".
A "
why" can not be answered by numbers alone. We can gather
information on place, age, and pdf file downloaded. But that will never
say anything about the motivation a person had to download a kit.
And it certainly doesn't give any clue at all about why a specific
demographic group does not engage in the hobby.
To answer a
why it is necessary to ask direct questions, establish relationships,
and apply some observation and proper judgment to arrive to conclusions.
That question ("
why paper modeling wasn't a hobby-subject for youngsters...")
requires a direct questioning to the subject being observed, i.e:,
the youngsters
who don't do paper modelling, and a thorough analysis of their answers,
which may be many and quite different from each other.
In that sense, I'm not convinced at all the chart Gerard made public
is useful at all to answer his question. It has never addressed the
problematic population, and never got any close to their (non) motivation.
It is just a bunch of personal information made public that not him, nor us
can use to answer the why young people are not engaged in paper
modelling. But it may be useful to answer any other question, specially:
who, when and what age downloaded what from a certain page.
So, he designed a tool that was useless to answer his question, or he just
made up that question after the fact. In any case, nothing is solved.