View Poll Results: Are you an engineer, or is your job in some other discipline?
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Are you an engineer, or are you something else?
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Originally Posted by bballplaya210,May 17 2008, 09:25 PM
This poll is probably going to be extremely biased since it will be mostly engineers that enter this topic due to the title. I'm an accounting major with 1 year left until I graduate.
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From my experience with car forums the bulk of the members are Engineers and IT people. IT people flock to forums because its a good way to kill time, they are on the net most all day long and any excuse not to work is an excuse worth looking into. Engineers have a unique mindset, they want to know more about everything, in that regard I would liken myself to an engineer, most people who purchase cars are "sheep." They want the car to work, and often have little understanding, or desire, to make it better or understand why things are the way they are. Engineers also spend a lot of time online, a luxury many professions don't have so it makes it easier for engineers to keep on top of a forums activity. For these reasons, among others, I find polls that try to generate serious results humorous, we are getting such a narrow and opinionated sample the results should be viewed as entertainment and not fact.
The example I always see on forums that "sheep" do not complain about are interior rattles. All forums are full of uptight individuals waiting to critique any thing they can and interior rattles are complained about on 90% of forums, yet I've never heard a normal automotive user comment on this phenomenon.
The example I always see on forums that "sheep" do not complain about are interior rattles. All forums are full of uptight individuals waiting to critique any thing they can and interior rattles are complained about on 90% of forums, yet I've never heard a normal automotive user comment on this phenomenon.
