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

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TRios_Zen said:

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).

I have a problem accepting the survey becuase it just seems poorly reported. Trusted sources generally provide a plethora of information about the study (margins of error, how they retrieved their samples, how the questions were phrased). When a study does not provide this information, it immediately raises a red flag for me. The survey could be legitimate, but I would not accept it until I saw this information. Needless to say, its also a little odd that the spokesman for the company does not even seem to recognize what the survey questions asked (doesn't differentiate between the terms considering and deciding in his quote).