Originally Posted by
ducasi
I think you are misunderstanding what "representative" means.
Here's an abbreviated definition...
I'd say that the forum "contains typical examples of many types" of MJ dancer in the UK, wouldn't you?
When a polling company does a poll to see who people might vote for in an election, they ask way, way fewer than "0.01%" of the voting public. Out of ~40 million people they ask a few thousand.
However the sample they choose is designed to be representative of the whole population. They do this by asking a wide cross-section of the population.
Do you not think that this forum has a fairly wide cross-section of the MJ dancing population? While it might be a little "top-heavy" in that the casual dancer is likely to be under represented, based on ESG's survey a couple of years back, and a bit of a guess, I'd say that the forum is in part a representative cross-section of at least the more experienced population of MJ dancers in the UK.
As such, it should not be ignored by event organisers who wish to know at least what a fair chunk of his or her customers are thinking.
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