Re: Polling declared worthless

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Or, perhaps he is saying that instead of just those that (your explanation 
here) you should randomize your sampling more by contacting iSeries 
developers at random by phone and getting their responses.

Polling data, in general, may, or may not, be worthless.  If you are 
asking a poll you may tailor it to get the desired result.  Ask it in a 
media slanted to your view.  Or any other number of things.  Let's face 
it, would a poll sponsored by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show garner a 
valid representation of the liberal population?  People may believe that 
responding to a poll may make no difference.  If everyone responded to a 
poll saying that /free is a revolutionary enhancement and the greatest 
thing since external files would that change your opinion?  Should it?

"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."
 - ????

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 





"Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> From: DeLong, Eric
> 
> I'm saying that the poll is worthless as an argument because it is in
no
> way a representative sampling of the audience.

Okay.  That's your opinion.  By your reasoning all polls are worthless,
because to be statistically significant requires a greater percentage of
programmers than follows any of the iSeries mailing lists or forums.
 
Joe

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