Collecting data from the poll
Now how to interpret the results?
JT and others, after getting a few hours sleep (emphasis on "few"
; going to remedy that on Saturday
), I checked
the ammo poll.
As of this time, 55 votes with 135 gr. Speer Gold Dot +P in a clear lead at ~38%.
Interestingly, second place is now occupied by "other" at ~22%.
(There appears to be a lot of interest there; 26 posts (we're on page 2) and 291 views already. Zoom zoom.)
So, it's clear that - because of the limited item numbers (16 max) AND because it appears that a fair number are specifying handloads, accurate data collection is going to involve more than just reading the results on the bar chart. We're going to potentially need to read each post and create entries for each of the "others".
So, to my questions: I'm
far from expert about ammo, especially when it comes to reloads. So, I'd like some advice about (and hopefully some help) setting up those "other" categories.
For example, if two people reload using the same bullet over the same kind of powder but different amount of said powder, do we list them in the same category, or different?
That is, are we "lumpers" (few categories with similar bullets and loads) or "splitters" (lots of categories, one for every conceivable bullet, powder type, powder amount, etc. After a few months of this, that could generate a LOT of categories and make interpretation ... difficult.
)
Also, should we try to summarize stated reasons for use of a given rnd, or just let readers of the thread parse those out on their own?
There are probably other questions, but I haven't had coffee yet, so I'm still pretty fuzzy ...
)
Thanks in advance for your opinions about this.
Nem