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Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS
Date 2018-04-27 18:44 +1200
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <pbugs7$4ue$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink)
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On 2018-04-27 01:44:38 +0000, Alan Baker said:
> On 2018-04-26 6:25 PM, Your Name wrote:
>> On 2018-04-26 21:47:43 +0000, Alan Baker said:
>>> On 2018-04-26 2:44 PM, Your Name wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> At least that's true for the measely 580 people they bothered to 
>>>> survey, making the whole thing a complete waste of time and money, and 
>>>> the "results" simply a load of bollocks reported as fact, as always 
>>>> with silly "surveys" / "polls" / "studies".
>>> 
>>> So you have to poll every single person on the planet to reach any 
>>> conclusions, do you?
>> 
>> You do if you want remotely *accurate* conclusions attributable to 
>> everyone ... although even then you'll get people who will lie.
> 
> No, actually.
> 
>> Surveying less than 600 people and then claiming the results actually 
>> mean anything for everyone is moronically silly. Even ignoring that, 
>> the survey was highly biased anyway since it ignores billions of people 
>> in China and Africa who are "employees" and don't get any choice at all.
> 
> But it was a survey precisely ABOUT choice.

Yep, the choice of less than 600 people they bothered to ask ... 
nothing more, nothing less.

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[NEWS] 72% employes choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-04-27 09:44 +1200
  Re: [NEWS] 72% employes choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2018-04-26 14:47 -0700
    Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-04-27 13:25 +1200
      Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2018-04-26 18:44 -0700
        Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-04-27 18:44 +1200
          Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2018-04-27 00:32 -0700
            Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-04-27 19:39 +1200
              Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2018-04-27 00:48 -0700
                Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-04-28 09:52 +1200
                Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-04-28 10:18 +1200
                Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-04-28 21:48 +0000
      Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2018-04-26 19:08 -0700
  Re: [NEWS] 72% employes choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-04-26 17:49 -0400
  Re: [NEWS] 72% employes choose Mac, 75% choose iOS nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-04-26 17:56 -0400
    Re: [NEWS] 72% employes choose Mac, 75% choose iOS gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2018-04-26 19:02 -0700
      Re: [NEWS] 72% employes choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-04-27 18:46 +1200
        Re: [NEWS] 72% employes choose Mac, 75% choose iOS nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-04-27 08:42 -0400
          Re: [NEWS] 72% employes choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-04-27 17:42 +0000
        Re: [NEWS] 72% employes choose Mac, 75% choose iOS Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-04-27 09:55 -0400
          Re: [NEWS] 72% employes choose Mac, 75% choose iOS nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-04-27 09:58 -0400

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