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Originally Posted by Sunshine
Just a thought. I bet the bottom 15% at competitions are the same 15% voting for the purchase of complete robots on the poll. Not sure how to interpret that. Want a quick and easy fix to a complex problem?
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I'd be happy to take that bet and you might as well get the envelope and stamp out now to mail it.
Lots of other people have pointed out that the full robot doesn't get you a win. You still need all the drive team, software, maintenance, pit crew, blah, blah, blah .. to make it. You could buy a full featured robot in 100 $399 chunks and still not be able to win with it. How many robots have we seen drive 3 second and stop because the battery connector wasn't tight.
I would suggest that the 15% of the people in the poll understand that the balance of the world won't move that much by having full kits. Teams that can machine and entire robot out of a single block of unobtainium are going to do so. Teams that are struggling might buy a full kit, but then they might not even know that is a possibility. Maybe we can get RC to give us a report on the number of teams that buy the full kit, but to be honest, most of us really don't care.
And if you are basing your bet on my post of me being in the bottom 10% multiple years in a row then you missed it. I was making a point. I often in my posts use strawman or what if arguments. I'm not above (or is it below?) using hyperbole in an argument. Lots of us do that, it's a common debate technique often seen at business meetings.
But then on the other hand, I have driven home after events going "well at least we were not last!"
Next, you can't glean anything out of the poll bars other than it has pretty colors. If you think so, give me a call, I can put you in touch with campaign staffs and political pundits, they love charts that they think have meanings. "Look, people that like cows also like Candidate B, therefor he will win!". It was put together in fun with random levels of quotients in the choices. Even the poll poster (does that make them the OPP?) said so in a later post.
Finally, we all "Want a quick and easy fix to a complex problem?" I want to weigh 185 again. I want to have color back in my hair. Actually, I'd settle for hair. But I know none of that's going to happen, much as easy fixes to complex problems don't happen. Not one person reading these words has thought there was an easy fix to anything in recent memory.
TL;DR - The 15% are not people in the bottom 15%, there are people posting that it's not true. Send my bet winnings to the MAR committee, they can use the money.
