Re: [ATM] Is ATMing really disappearing?

[James Gort <jgort@oxford-observatory.org>]

Hi Dave,

I think that the survey won't give a rate of growth, but will provide a 
positive / negative indication of the current growth.

Hi David,

I guess I was looking at Mel's original question.  While many hobbies do 
grow in the retired ranks (e.g., gardening, woodworking, probably 
ATMing), I think the "future" of ATMing lies with the young people.  I 
could be wrong in that assumption, of course!

And I agree with your statistical approach.  But we don't have that 
data.  My idea was only to get an idea of whether younger people are 
taking up the hobby.  Not rigorously correct, but it will (I think) 
provide an indication of what's happening (with the available data).

Cheers,

James



Dave Smith wrote:
> Hi  James,
> Although interesting and perhaps revealing, the data
> set will suffer from being a statistically
> insignificant single point point in time.
> Dave
>   

> Many hobbies grow as retired people take them up.
> You also seem to assume that young people who take the hobby up will stick with it for life.
>
> The only possible way to determine if the hobby "is growing" would be to take a current snapshot and compare it to some historical snapshot.
>
> David (a statistician)

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