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Thanks. It's not surprising to me that cold lovers would want cooler summers, and heat lovers would want warm winters and hot summers. Although hardly a statistical study, it is a blemish against the hypothesis that most people cluster around the middle in something resembling a bell curve; instead it seems that there are several distinct clusters across a wide range. It certainly disproves that notion among people that frequent this forum, and although it is uncertain whether this applies to the general public or not, it also conforms to my anecdotal encounters. The typical Cfa climate is right in the middle of the road climate-wise, and so the "silent moderates hypothesis" would predict that that would be the most popular climate - however I've seen that type get the least recommendations overall, both on this forum and in real life.
I've completed an addition to my climate preference chart. Below is the chart as envisioned by Dhdh but with lines that indicate a constant degree of seasonality. For example, the line marked "5" includes the points that mark a 5 degree Celsius difference between summer and winter. The gray portion indicates points on the chart that have a hottest month colder than the coldest month, and are thus logically impossible, as pointed out earlier.
To Cambium, those are interesting ideas and perhaps we can include more charts with different axes in the future. As for the sunshine scale, the numbers are annual sunshine hours. 4000 hours equals 91% of possible sun, 1286 equals 29% of possible sun, and 2572 represents 59% of possible sun. The amount of possible sunshine anywhere during a full year is 4383 hours, so you could figure it out yourself. Or I could just make another version of the chart .
I thought we had a majority of cold lovers here, but this table says otherwise (or else many newbies haven't been added yet..).
Edit: the table is not appearing for some reason, despite me "quoting" it. It's post no. 155 on page 16 of this thread.
Cold lovers are getting ever more numerous on this forum.
You caught that too.
Just look at the locations of the posters from our own country; why are the posters overwhelmingly from the northern parts of the USA? Where are the millions who live in cities Miami, LA, San Diego, Phoenix, Houston, New Orleans, San Fran, Sacramento, Orlando…etc? How come there are few if any posters from those locations?
I was in south Florida for two months and get on my computer exactly 3 times - lol. I’m back in the NYC/CT area now…and I’ve been on the computer every day over the last 6 days when I wasn’t working.
I’d love to see a chart/graph of the geography of posters….and the season they are posting in. It would be quite interesting I think.
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