Re: [Paddlewise] Size of kayaking community?

From: Wes Boyd <boydwe_at_dmci.net>
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 20:50:48
At 04:44 PM 5/6/02 -0700, Dave Kruger wrote:
>another way of making an estimate:
>
>I know most of the paddlers around here ("paddler" being somebody who owns a
>sea kayak and has used it at least 4-5 times that I can recall).  There are
>about 40-50, using those criteria.  The total population hereabouts is about
>30,000.
>
>That makes about 0.17% sea kayak paddlers.  Double that, figuring maybe I
only
>know half the local paddlers.
>
>So that's  0.34%

>Apply that to the entire US population (250,000,000) and you get about
400,000
>paddlers of the sea kayak variety.

Uh, I get 850,000. However, math wasn't my strong subject.

But your figures skew high, because you are in an area where sea kayaking
is popular, at least partly because there's good places to do it in close
at hand. F'r instance, I know at one time we had one or two Kansas sea
kayakers on this echo, but not many.

Again, to use the comment I used earlier to start all this. 100,000 people
in this county. Realistically, I can think of six people that I could call
sea kayakers using your definition (three with plastic boats as their best
boat, three, including myself, with glass). That's .006% Double that,
.0012% (although I suspect that's high). Multiply by 250 million, you get
30 thousand sea kayakers.

(snip)
>
>I think 400,000 is high, but that's just intuition speaking.

So do I. 

I know someone is going to look at my numbers and scream that I don't know
math. They're right.

-- Wes
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