pearljammer said:
antfromtashkent said:
pearljammer said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
c0rd said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
I think you misunderstand the difference between a scientific study and an informal poll.
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Oh, what does that mean? I just thought one shouldn't make conclusions off an "informal poll" (which is kinda done in the OP).
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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.
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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.
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the keywords here are "i can conclude" and the Dev's are the ones that are generizing... this poll just proves eventhough this is not a concrete scientific 100% poll... they are wrong to say that the the Wii is a childs toy.
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I'm sorry, but that simply makes no sense. Saying 'I can conclude' here is no different than saying 'In conclusion' or 'one may conclude'. It's a matter of making such a broad generalisation from such limited and informal data.
Regardless, it's a generalisation you're making. I'm not refuting the fact that some developers may be generalising themselves, but that doesn't validate your point. The only thing that this poll proves is the ownership of HD consoles vs. Wii consoles of 97 people on these forums. You may be able to generalise your results to the entire forums of vgchartz (may be stretching a bit there too), but any further is just foolhardy.
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lol what? im not forsing my conclution onto anyone... thats why this topic is here to be dicust...
