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**lalpphilalk** · 06-23-2009, 02:32 PM

To be fair, you'd have to make separate threads for each area... I mean, I voted for 7-dan, but I also live in Japan, which I imagine would skew the statistics a little.

Well, how reliable is a forum poll anyway? The previous one was answered by an aikidoka with a "8-dan soke" as head of dojo. It means very little even if you disregard such things.

It also means nothing without further comments, like yours saying you're in Japan and voted as such. Numbers and results need explaining. If 100% of people voted "hachidan" we would look for an answer (maybe all voters are from the Keishicho). If we see 80% of people saying their sensei is below 3-dan, we need an answer for that too; nevertheless we would be in the position to say that, as far as the poll is concerned, the level of Kendo development is rather low.

Different facts would call for different explanations, of course. I was only aswering the claim that asking these questions is irrelevant. I think it's quite interesting,

06-23-2009, 02:32 PM	#18
lalpphilalk Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 440 Senior Member	To be fair, you'd have to make separate threads for each area... I mean, I voted for 7-dan, but I also live in Japan, which I imagine would skew the statistics a little. Well, how reliable is a forum poll anyway? The previous one was answered by an aikidoka with a "8-dan soke" as head of dojo. It means very little even if you disregard such things. It also means nothing without further comments, like yours saying you're in Japan and voted as such. Numbers and results need explaining. If 100% of people voted "hachidan" we would look for an answer (maybe all voters are from the Keishicho). If we see 80% of people saying their sensei is below 3-dan, we need an answer for that too; nevertheless we would be in the position to say that, as far as the poll is concerned, the level of Kendo development is rather low. Different facts would call for different explanations, of course. I was only aswering the claim that asking these questions is irrelevant. I think it's quite interesting,
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