Yeah, it's just rude. Maybe a cultural difference, I don't know.
What I posted is evidence. Look up the definition in any dictionary you care to read.
I didn't make a web poll.
I also have degrees
Ugh, I'm outta here. Rude ass.
People are not disputing your poll, by itself. They are saying its not valid because it has "selection bias". One has to work very hard with any sort of information gathering to avoid selection bias.
An example of "selection bias" would be asking a question like "Do you believe that full battery electric vehicles, or internal combustion vehicles represent the future of ground motorized transportation?".... in a Tesla forum. Then, you could take these survey results and state "My survey proves that people think battery cars are the fuuuturrreeeee....!!!!"
Your survey would say that, but there would be no proof that the sample of people you surveyed was meaningful in providing real results across a wide swath of people.
Similarly, asking people on a forum to report whether they had problems with a car or not automatically introduces selection bias, because many people head online to look for solutions to a problem, and find a forum and start posting in it. Your data source is skewed, so your poll is skewed. This is what they are trying to explain to you.
The poll also doesnt have much to do with the actual thread title, since "panel gaps" does not = Lemon car. A "lemon" is a specific definition actually when the manufacturer buys the car back. ALL manufacturers work very hard to avoid "lemons" even on cars that should be treated as such. I know for a fact that, sometimes, BMW will offer to buy a car back that SHOULD be marked as a "lemon" (branded title) but because they did so willingly without being compelled to do so, the car isnt a "lemon" even though almost everyone would call it such.
In any case, the above is why people are saying "your poll isnt valid". Its pretty easy to make statistic polls prove whatever you want, by the selection of who you poll, and takes real work (or a large data set) to try to minimize selection bias.
EDIT: I also remember the OP in this thread "shopping" previously. Many of the same questions were asked. OP, even if you had this information now, how would that possibly impact a car decision that, by your own admittance is "2 years from now"? Tesla could be the best manufacturer on the planet, or a year into bankruptcy, or anywhere in between.
