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Which kite brand do you fly? (July 2004)

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Which kite brand do you fly?

Naish
92
11%
Flysurfer
60
7%
North
80
10%
Ocean Rodeo
30
4%
Best
117
14%
Peter Lynn
44
5%
Slingshot
60
7%
Cabrinha
90
11%
RRD
8
1%
Gaastra
8
1%
Flexifoil
6
1%
Wipika
20
2%
F-one
19
2%
Takoon
27
3%
Globerider
22
3%
Liquid Force
21
3%
Monkey
8
1%
Other
41
5%
Totally mixed
38
5%
Caution
16
2%
 
Total votes: 807

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Postby Dax » Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:34 pm

All tied up at 53 / 13% ... surprised North isn't making a bigger showing.

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Postby vietkiter » Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:17 pm

Dax wrote:All tied up at 53 / 13% ... surprised North isn't making a bigger showing.
I wouldn't put much stock in specific percentage due to the small sample... but the top tier has the usual suspects... Naish, North, Cabrinha, SS... surprise by Best's momentum given how young the company is... that's the top 5 and then the rest... wonder how these numbers would look like if we simply look at 04 kites only?

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Postby Foxi » Wed Jul 21, 2004 3:02 pm

Hi Viet,

as promised here the price the brandnew Nem 12 was finally sold in e-bay: 399€/460US $

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... RK:MEWA:IT

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Postby Toby » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:05 pm

how about a new poll:

which brand did you buy in 2004??

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Postby vietkiter » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:39 pm

Foxi wrote:Hi Viet,

as promised here the price the brandnew Nem 12 was finally sold in e-bay: 399€/460US $

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... RK:MEWA:IT
Add in shipping at it works out to be $530 US... about the average price in a Best 342 deal. Still a great price.

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Postby vietkiter » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:43 pm

Toby wrote:how about a new poll:

which brand did you buy in 2004??
I think that is a much more intereting poll now that you have a better idea which brands to list in your limited alloted space. Given what Wipika US is doing, it will be more interesting to see which brands have momentum. Also a good way to focus all the different brands discussions.

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Postby sq225917 » Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:16 pm

how about a, what brands will you look at next year?

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Postby 'caneman » Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:35 pm

vietkiter wrote:
Dax wrote:All tied up at 53 / 13% ... surprised North isn't making a bigger showing.
I wouldn't put much stock in specific percentage due to the small sample... but the top tier has the usual suspects... Naish, North, Cabrinha, SS... surprise by Best's momentum given how young the company is... that's the top 5 and then the rest... wonder how these numbers would look like if we simply look at 04 kites only?
viet, in mathmatical terms, any survey above 30 people in a given population is statisticaly vaiably. Meaning that the percentages you see above represent the average kiteforum viewer as close as possible. but if you were to randomly (key word) select 30 of the worlds 50k-100k kitesurfers, the response they give would be a relitivly accurate showing of the worlds brand useage. obviously more=better but in simple terms thats the jist of it. Heck, the numbers cnn/foxnet/msnbc ect use for the poll on the presidency's popularity is based on only 1k-2k people in the US

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Postby vietkiter » Wed Jul 21, 2004 8:10 pm

I am very tempted to put on my statician hat... but I would say the 2 standard deviation confidence interval is not statitically significant... so break out your college stats book.

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Postby vietkiter » Wed Jul 21, 2004 8:14 pm

'caneman wrote:Heck, the numbers cnn/foxnet/msnbc ect
Er... this is only one step above tabloid news... please also note the usual +/- 5% error that very few people actually have a clue as to what it means...


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