| MikeB said: @ HappySquirriel It's not really that hard to do a proper survey. First question: "Do you know what Blu-Ray is?" Based on the response you can rule out a lot of things already. |
When 80% of people hang up because they don't want to deal with another telemarketer, and a disproportionately large portion of the remaining people are vdeophiles (who are happy someone is finally asking them about something important to them) how do you get a random sample?
Being that it is (rapidly) becomming impossible to survey people between the ages of 18 and 30 because they own cellphones (and its illegal to telemarket a cellphone) how do you have a random sample?
Even after you ask your question "Do you know what Blu-Ray is?" if they answer yes how do you know they know what Blu-Ray is? Do you only listen to people who know what it is, and wouldn't doing so eliminate a large portion of the population from the study?
You're trying to trivialize a very serious problem; in every election (in pretty much every country) there is growing coverage on how inaccurate polling is becomming because of these problems and yet you dismiss them. For months we have seen survey after survey that is trying to support your (or another PS3 fans position) only to have the conclusions from the survey never come true; there was a survey in August which predicted amazing HDTV sales over Christmas, when after christmas there are amazing deals on HDTVs because of how poorly the performed (in comparison to retailer expectations).
