Why have only a few people ever seen a total solar eclipse?

As the experts says, solar eclipse do not happen always like lunar eclipses do that is visible for a long periods of time and are observable. Unlike solar eclipse, it happens hundreds and thousands of years to see it. Few people can only see solar eclipse, and those only those people who are in the small region where the Moon's umbra strike's Earth can witness one.

the second type of galaxy is called a barred spiral, which has a thing called a bar straddling the nucleus

you didn't give any options but heres what i can tell you: an inference is likely to change based on additional observations. the latter is something that you have seen or sensed using your sensory organs while the former is like a conclusion out from what you have observed.