Monster cue...hits a ton...etc., etc., etc.

[Walkermine]

Only been here a few years, but long enough to have drawn a conclusion on this. It appears that if you own a higher end cue with elaborate inlays, your cue is likely a closet queen, you probably can’t run three balls, and the maker is an artist but not a cue maker. However, if you own something that is plain, without inlays, or at most, a propeller or barbell, then shit, you have a cue that plays lights out and was most likely made by Antonio Stradivari himself. Just an observation.

Paul

 

[Chopdoc]

How am I not being clear enough for you? Or are you just making me take a position I never did in the first place?

Let me be as clear as I can be here: A pool cue's "hit" is subjective, therefore purely opinion based. Ten different people could say ten different things about how a pool cue hits. The hit of a pool cue is based solely on opinion.

I get it. That is subjective data. It can be collected and measured.

You don't understand that. Clearly. That's OK.

I'm not going to argue about it.



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[Chopdoc]

Pool is no different that any other hobby or interest, most notably competetive/sporting endeavors, where hyperbolic lingo is commonly used to describe things. I don't understand why it bothers anyone, although at the same time nobody should be expected to take it that seriously.

Does not bother me. I certainly won't argue about it. Well said.


Many do like to argue about it though.


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[xXGEARXx]

I get it. That is subjective data. It can be collected and measured.

You don't understand that. Clearly. That's OK.

I'm not going to argue about it.



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What does that even mean?? Let's take opinionated data about a subject that will never be able to proven one way or the other?

The only thing that would be collected and measured is opinions. That in itself proves nothing! How is subjective data RELEVANT to THIS topic??

Help me out over here.

 

[fjk]

By definition, half of all cues made hit below average. Folks must be hanging on to those cues though because they never come up for sale.

 

[Veteran68]

By definition, half of all cues made hit below average. Folks must be hanging on to those cues though because they never come up for sale.

Nitpick: half of all cues made hit below the median (of whatever range of measure quantifies "hit"). Average is not the midpoint.

But we get your point.

 

[AtLarge]

... A pool cue's "hit" is subjective, therefore purely opinion based. Ten different people could say ten different things about how a pool cue hits. The hit of a pool cue is based solely on opinion.

Here's a bit of a different opinion on that, from 2007:

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hit is not that subjective. ...
i feel from my experience, as a player, and as a cue seller, that when you have an awesome, special, hitting cue, the better players can tell.
and when you have a cue that hits funny for whatever reason, the better players can tell also.
i could not have said these things 5 years ago, because i'm a better player now, and have tried tons and tons of more cues.
i believe when a cue hits good, it hits good.
people like different tapers, softer/harder hits, steel/flatfaced-big pin, i understand that.
but when you try a cue thats a little too stiff for your liking, but hits solid, you can't say thats a bad hitting cue. it's just not for you.
when i try to sell cues, i don't use the lines like "it hits a ton". i try to describe the hit. softer/harder, stiff/whippy, whatever, and let the consumer decide.

(here's where i get in trouble)

i think the lower handicapped players don't really know the difference between these cues.
not because they are dumb, or beginners, but that they have not had the experience. ...

 

[skins]

Bogey knows what he's talking about...

 

[jalapus logan]

I like the guys that are selling a "fancy sneaky pete". What the hell does that even mean? Is this like a jeweler selling a diamond and advertising that it has little or no luster?????

 

[xXGEARXx]

Here's a bit of a different opinion on that, from 2007:

"....I feel...."

That says it all!

 

[lorider]

I sold a cue a while back that beat all the monsters...lights outs and hits a tons. A poster on here said it was a sexy looking cue .its the only time I have ever heard of a cue being described as sexy ....what ever that means lol

 

[HawaiianEye]

I sold a cue a while back that beat all the monsters...lights outs and hits a tons. A poster on here said it was a sexy looking cue .its the only time I have ever heard of a cue being described as sexy ....what ever that means lol

A guy wanting to buy my Titlist player called it "hot" last Sunday. I didn't ask what he meant. LOL.

 

[fjk]

Nitpick: half of all cues made hit below the median (of whatever range of measure quantifies "hit"). Average is not the midpoint.

But we get your point.

The only time the average wouldn't be the midpoint would be if the data are not normally distributed. When data are normally distributed, the mean and median are the same.