When I first thought of this thread, my belief was that most of the votes would be in the Haswell generation (and later)....with some Ivy Bridge trickling in as well. This, in contrast, to Sandy Bridge LGA 1155 which I remember as mostly being Core i5 2500K users (for enthusiast).
However, I remember that LGA 1366 platform (which preceded the mainstream LGA 1156 platform) as being enormously sucessful....and it only had Core i7 processors available for it.
With that mentioned, the current vote count is 4 (with 2 votes on Nehalem LGA 1156 and LGA 1366) and 1 vote each on Ivy Bridge LGA 1155 and Haswell LGA 1150)
Whether the analogy has any "scientific validity" or not, I think of this in terms of practical computing life-cycle, staggered across people who jumped into the technology at different times, with greater patience or less with end-of-life systems, and a variety of interests in generational tech improvements.
So with that, all of these individuals are like surfers. They're sitting on their boards off some point break along the coast, waiting . . . waiting . . . waiting.
There's this wave, or that wave. Some folks stand up; others continue sitting on their boards -- hoping for a bigger wave.
It would be interesting to get a sample of those starting with Nehalem, to see how many switched to Sandy, how many to Ivy, to Haswell and so on. And then run the same exercise against each successive chip generation.