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Originally Posted by airdave
I disagree with you Ruben, in this instance.
100 people is a good cross reference of online digital model activity.
And I think it does reflect a common attitude towards internet models.
I wouldn't call it an accurate scientific study, but a good reflection.
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And I disagree with your disagreeing ! :P
I'm not sure if 100 isolated people can actually serve as a thermometer
on an on-line phenomenon. It may be if that is compared in parallel to
other similar data. So if you can observe that a similar age-group discrimination
can be found on the downloads of your own kits, then that can be called a tendency.
But as far as I know you have never asked for age information from anyone downloading your kits.
I've seen in many other places (DeviantArt just one example, 4chan the just another)
how youngsters actually build paper models. But they mainly build pokemons,
anime dolls/figurines and mechas, and cubees, which are not the subject of Gerard's kits.
That population can hugely affect the results of an analysis that considers the whole of the hobby.
And interpreting the results only from one website, without considering
the existence of those people outside it, is not a valid reason to say
that young people are not attracted to paper modelling.
But... the "attitude" you mention, may certainly be true.
"Free" things are more attractive to most of the population.
And I'm one of those who have downloaded many of your KoolWeheelz
just because they look fine and are free
and have never built any
(or maybe just one).
Sadly, the desire for free things also has some negative side effects.