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pearljammer on 12 February 2009
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Words Of Wisdom said:
c0rd said:
Words Of Wisdom said:

I think you misunderstand the difference between a scientific study and an informal poll.

Oh, what does that mean? I just thought one shouldn't make conclusions off an "informal poll" (which is kinda done in the OP).

You can draw a conclusion from any poll.  For example, if I ask 10 people whether they prefer chocolate or vanilla ice cream and 9 say chocolate, then I can draw the conclusion that of those 10 more prefer chocolate.  What I cannot do is generalize this to the entire world saying "most people prefer chocolate ice cream."

I see the OP as drawing a conclusion more along the lines of the former though rereading it I see how it sounds like the latter.

I think there was an implied generalisation. From the OP:

"And from this poll i can conclude that the Dev's are wrong about the wii and its used base"

From this poll, we can only conclude about the userbase of the Wii on these forums. Even then, only from a few. 'Developers' wouldn't make decisions based informal polls such as this and to claim that 'they' are wrong you would have to assume that your data can be generalised.