More people in US with a HD DVD player than Blu-ray

[Epoch]

axumblade said:

Epoch said:

Lostplanet22 said:
They had a survey that counted of 700 people. They asked them for who you are gonna vote and Obama won; A survey of 700 people can be a very good indication for whole the country.

WOW.  You just boggled my mind. 

I once flipped a coin 701 times and my "survey" told me that Bush would win in 2000.  Guess my coin was a pretty good indicator for the whole country as well -.-

It's called a survey for a reason...And it was slightly accurate, your argument makes no sense considering it was a sample survey and in all likelhiood, they interviewed people from different states for their answers. Just because not everybody liked Obama doesn't mean that he wasn't going to win. It's about who has the most votes, not who has all of the votes...

You both missed the point of my example.  My example was simply to demonstrate that the likelyhood of their "survey" being correct was about 50%. 

700 people surveyed is hardly indicative of anything.  The fact that the survey was right is due more random chance than anything else. 

In short: small data sets used to represent much larger populations are often rife with problems. There are countless examples of this.  Look some up