The more accurate LB vs Sedan Poll

[eric81]

Yeah, I thin I like her. She's cool. Yeah.

[DerKaiZeRs]

28 years old with sedan

[BluYrs]

26, 3d HB.

[cleong]

Originally Posted by b_hickman11

I'm wondering what the ratio is just in the USA? Anyone have these numbers yet? I wish all of the LB owners who voted on the other poll would vote on this one. Still missing about 20. Of course the total # of votes is still way less than the total # of users on this site. So until the numbers go up, my poll is inaccurate.

You are right to a certain extent that until the numbers go up, your poll is inaccurate, as the greater the sampling population the more reliable your data.

However, the nature of a poll makes for an unpredictable and constantly increasing sampling population. You have no way of ensuring equal sampling population unless you asked, say, 50 people and got 50 replies in both polls.

Otherwise the results of this current poll can still be valid.

Here's why:

• You have no way of ensuring that the same people who voted in the initial poll would vote on this poll
• You also have no way of knowing if the people who voted on this poll voted in the original poll.
• The chances of the remaining 20 missing persons skewing the poll results are fairly remote.
• I am too lazy to run up my statistical analysis program, but the numbers show a significant difference that clearly indicate a greater number of LB than sedans.

However, we should remember that this is just a representation of Yarisworld's population demographics.

We can infer from the results that more Yarisworlders own liftbacks than sedans.

One reason could be that LB owners are more interested in their cars (and the resulting community). Sedan owners could simply only be interested to use the car, and not keen at all to find out more about it, or modify it, much less talk about it online. Sure, there could be the exceptions but those are few.

The other reason is that there could simply be fewer sedans made than LBs, which could be a possibility. There are no sedans some markets like Australia/New Zealand or Europe.