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INTEREST: 84% of Japanese College Students Have Never Read Dragon Ball

If the poll is anonymous, then there's no reason to hide.

Plus DB is an all-ages icon now, like One Piece - nobody would shame anyone who has read it.

enurtsol wrote:

If the poll is anonymous, then there's no reason to hide.

That is a very native english spèaker thing "Oh, it is anonymous, then I will tell you everything"

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Plus DB is an all-ages icon now, like One Piece - nobody would shame anyone who has read it.

I do not think so, even here in the west you will not give the latest DBZ movie as a present to an adult unless you know the recipient is a big fan, unlike say, the latest Avengers movie, which could be a nice present for your average adult. One Piece is in a category by itself, beyond even DB at its prime.

I'm sure years later will come down the line and the same thing will happen to Naruto and One Piece, sure they'll be remembered but it'll be in an entirely different context like me knowing of the Peanuts or something like that. It's was the big reason why as much as I hated the notion of "the big 3" I was really interested in seeing what would replace them since they're practically dying out (yes make your One Piece will go on to the end of time jokes but while I like it I feel like it's lost it's relevancy having become a franchise vehicle looking outside of the manga.)

Maybe they should have thrown them a curve and asked instead what a Piccolo is.

Araki wrote:

Lyzee goes on to claim Dragon Ball isn't that big anymore. Well, check out Toei/Bandai last financial reports, and the last movie box office, and come back again..

I made no such claim. The only claims made is that younger generations aren't interested in Dragon Ball (i.e. it' s no longer a 'gateway' anime) and apparently the older generation didn't pass the series on to their kids.

Obviously the show is still big, just not with the college-age demographic.

Dragonball is pretty old and only appeals to old people its not relevant or good enough to be read over Naruto to people of this gen. Kishimoto reinvinted the genre and did more than Toriyama has done so its clear why people wouldnt be into Dragonball manga in 2015.

What are they even teaching in colleges these days?!

I do not think so, even here in the west you will not give the latest DBZ movie as a present to an adult unless you know the recipient is a big fan, unlike say, the latest Avengers movie, which could be a nice present for your average adult.

One Piece is in a category by itself, beyond even DB at its prime.

Mr. Nescio wrote:

This seems to be a very common misconspection of how sample sizes work. Briefly, if the statistical population is large is compared to the sample size, it is not usually a problem at all to statistics. In the many simple cases, like a series of coin flips, the statistical population is actually infinite (you can flip a theoretical coin infinitely many times), but you can still infer about the fairness of the coin with a finite amount of flips, e.g. much less than 400 flips.

Yeah and also power and large enough sample size (too lazy to check power) but I do agree with what youre saying and I doubt theyd need to or if itd be feasible to even get 1% of the entire population (actually how would they even define college population and recruit all of them in a survey).

Dragonball is pretty old and only appeals to old people its not relevant or good enough to be read over Naruto to people of this gen. Kishimoto reinvinted the genre and did more than Toriyama has done so its clear why people wouldnt be into Dragonball manga in 2015.

enurtsol wrote:

If the poll is anonymous, then there's no reason to hide.

That is a very native english spèaker thing "Oh, it is anonymous, then I will tell you everything"

enurtsol wrote:

Plus DB is an all-ages icon now, like One Piece - nobody would shame anyone who has read it.

I do not think so, even here in the west you will not give the latest DBZ movie as a present to an adult unless you know the recipient is a big fan, unlike say, the latest Avengers movie, which could be a nice present for your average adult. One Piece is in a category by itself, beyond even DB at its prime.

I'd also say the coin flipping analogy doesn't really make sense for this case because a coin flip is completely random, there is nothing that can determine whether the coin will go one way or the other, while things pertaining human opinion are heavily dependent on a lot of variable. In the election example, you'll likely get radically different results if you ask 400 people in a conservative neighborhood than if you do it in a liberal neighborhood/ a rich neighborhood vs a poor one/ a mono-ethnical neighborhood vs a multiethnical one and so forth.

Considering the pool of participants, these results are rather dismissable. 84% sure sounds like a lot, but when you're asking only 400 people it's a rather useless statistic. I don't think that amount is even 1% of the Japanese college population

In the election example, you'll likely get radically different results if you ask 400 people in a conservative neighborhood than if you do it in a liberal neighborhood/ a rich neighborhood vs a poor one/ a mono-ethnical neighborhood vs a multiethnical one and so forth.

I'd also say the coin flipping analogy doesn't really make sense for this case because a coin flip is completely random, there is nothing that can determine whether the coin will go one way or the other, while things pertaining human opinion are heavily dependent on a lot of variable.