Those are curious facts, but there are several important questions
that need to be addessed before any conclusions (or even suggestions) can
be made:
1. What type of class that is and for whom?
(e.g. an introduction to major for espiring photographers vs. one of the
"election" classes for "far-from-major"-s)
2. For most of those numbers his is not a statistically representative
case. So, very few clear conclusions can be made (Except that the class is
happening, and you've got some studnets who are likely to be interested in
photography). With just a dozen of students, the statistical error is
Sqrt(12) ~= 3.5 So, +/- 3.5 person is your "error bars" for each of the
numbers you mentioned. (I.e. 0 +/- 3.5 with mirrorless, 0 +/- 3.5 with
4/3rds, 2 +/- 3.5 with P&S, etc.)
And that 3.5 out of 12 is close to 30%. It means that if you were to teach
this class again and again, and no other factors would change,
on average you might expect up to 30% of students with mirrorless and up
to 30% - with 4/3rds, and up to 45% with P&S.
Not that "black and white" anymore, isn't it?
Playing a party pooper,
Igor
;-)
On Sep 27, 2016, at 6:14 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
A brief survey of the students in my "Digital Photography II" class,
from an equipment standpoint:
There are a dozen students in this class.
2 started out with point & shoot cameras (but are getting DSLRs for
the course)
10 came into the course already owning DSLRs
All Canon or Nikon
All APS-C format DSLRs
No mirrorless
No Four-Thirds cameras
None of the students has even heard of mirrorless cameras
2 students knew about raw files (one of whom shoots raw already)
--
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
PDML@pdml.net
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.
