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Originally Posted by Tcoat
You are taking two totally different data points and mashing them together to make a new one that simply is not supported.
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Firstly, its 4 points of data. Average of a BRZ owner, Average age of a 86 owner, Percentage of manual BRZ owners, percentage of manual 86 owners.
Secondly, we have a pretty healthy dataset with plenty of cars that those numbers are taken from.
Thirdly, those data points are both related to owners of sports cars that are extremely similar, so even though we have just a few statistical points to refer to about the owners, there are many other data points that strengthen the relationship - the price, the look, the performance... they are 'twins' of course. Its fairly solid apples to apples.
So yeah its enough to indicate that its more likely to be older people who drive autos, its certainly not an indication to the opposite. It would of course be necessary to have further information to make more definitive claims, like a breakdown of age in units against the selection of transmission, instead of averages, which might hide outliers in certain ages, though I'd be confident there would still be a clear weight to older drivers and automatics, as the averages/percentages are what they are for a reason.
Not sure why I bother to answer you though - perhaps I have a fondness for you tcup. I feel I can call you that since we are friends.