PS3 users are you thinking of switching to a Xbox 360?

[TRios_Zen]

chocoloco said:

TRios_Zen said:

I'm not sure that many people on this sight understand the concept of random sampling of large populations and the associated error and confidence level.

I do not know how the survey was conducted, but I doubt it was truely random. If they went one type of store, or surveyed online that is not random at all. As you probably know a random sample must have equal oppurtunity for every ps3 owner to be asked this question. The survey does not come close to giving every person equal oppurtunity.

That is why some people are not taking the survey to seriously.

You are making a couple of fairly egregious assumptions, no offense:

1)  IF you don't know how the sampling was done, than jumping to the conclusion that it was done, NOT randomly, is, well...I'm just not sure how you make that jump without introducing personal bias (ie, I dont like what it said, so I don't *think* it was random, so it wasn't).

2)  If the survey was ONLY looking for PS3 owners responses your second point would make sense, but that was not all that was reported, so limiting it to PS3 owners would invalidate the other items on the survey.

I'm cool with people not liking the survey, but trying to invalidate the survey, with statements like "it wasn't random" or "they didn't use enough people" wihtout sound, valid reasons for saying those things, well that is the definition of introducing bias into a response.