Voting options for future collection polls

[DELTAprime]

How many people really have large collections in excess of 1000? I don't think many of us have collections that are that big. I only have 303 toys in my collection and I think there will be a lot more like me and far fewer with over 1000.

[GoktimusPrime]

How many people really have large collections in excess of 1000? I don't think many of us have collections that are that big. I only have 303 toys in my collection and I think there will be a lot more like me and far fewer with over 1000.

19% of collectors surveyed have collections numbering 1000 or more.

[UltraMarginal]

Honestly have no Idea what numbers I have. When I was a youngun it was around 100, I stopped collecting for a long time and started back up with Alternators/Binaltech then Generations and the Movies, animated and prime. so probably close to 1000.

perhaps increments of 150 or 200.
The problem with this is we then lose resolution in the data.
Why bother limiting ourselves to other threads, if we have 15 increments and somewhere else has 10 and we need to compare, just fit out 15 increments into their 10.

[DELTAprime]

19% of collectors surveyed have collections numbering 1000 or more.

That means that 81% have less than 1000 and looks like over 75% have 500 or less. More people have smaller collections. If you really want to increase the limit then maybe try something like.

100 / 200 / 300 / 400 / 500 / 750 / 1000 / 1250 / 1500 / 2000

[GoktimusPrime]

First of all, I've stopped doing the annual collection count survey poll since 2011. Pretty much other boards aren't interested in participating any more, unless we wanna still do it just for OTCA. <shrugs>

Secondly, even if we wanted to continue this project, changing the increments would render the results incomparable with previous years. The results that I showed you in my last posted represents the average of results gathered between the years of 2007 to 2011. If we were to conduct a poll this month for 2013 and we used the increments that you're suggesting then I would be unable to include results for anything above 500 into that of previous years.

But don't forget that from 2009 to 2011 we did have secondary polls for people with collections number 100 or less and 1000 and over - represented thusly:

[Sinnertwin]

5500 TF? Wow...
You'd need a hangar to store it all

[GoktimusPrime]

5500 TF? Wow...
You'd need a hangar to store it all

Noone voted above 3500, but I just put that option there because in the future we could very well have collections that large. In 1985 I thought owning 50 Transformers was already a big accomplishment - the idea of owning hundreds or thousands would've been inconceivable.

We're gonna need Tardises to store our collections one day.

[DELTAprime]

But don't forget that from 2009 to 2011 we did have secondary polls for people with collections number 100 or less and 1000 and over - represented thusly:

In that case there is no need to change the poll. Just do a secondary poll like you have done in the past for people over 1000.