CNET UK's games console reliability survey: 60 per cent of Xbox 360s have broken

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twesterm said:

These articles are as misleading as the news when it says so many people have died from the H1N1 vaccine. In the vaccine case, they count anyone who has died and who has received the H1N1 vaccine. So if you got hit by a bus and took the vaccine, you're counted. So that's how that is misleading.

In this surveys case, it's misleading because:

1. Self selected means people opted into it which means people that have more emotions are the ones willing to participate. That means people who have had their 360's fail are more willing to participate.
2. They merely say broken down-- that could RRoD, the person kicking their 360, or any number of things.
3. Even if 60% were true, that does not mean that if you buy a 360 today it has a 60% chance of failing. That poll should cover all models of the 360. For all we know the 40% that didn't fail could all be new ones.

So yes, again, this survey is stupid and unreliable but I'm sure fanboys will still use it in forum e-penis wars. -_-

And yes, I want that plushie.

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And it does make me laugh that 60% of the time an article is posted that puts a console in a negative light the person who posted that article doesn't even own the console in question...

Surely as a mod you realize that last comment refers to what is a basic law of the forums.  Anyone posting dubious but potentially really bad news about a console must not themselves have ever owned said console.