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| From | Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.misc |
| Subject | Re: [NEWS] 72% employees choose Mac, 75% choose iOS |
| Date | 2018-04-27 00:48 -0700 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <pbukk9$ac3$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <pbtu5n$1den$1@gioia.aioe.org> <pbtva3$1ei2$3@gioia.aioe.org> <pbugs7$4ue$1@gioia.aioe.org> <pbujkc$91p$1@gioia.aioe.org> <pbuk3j$9sq$1@gioia.aioe.org> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 2018-04-27 12:39 AM, Your Name wrote: > On 2018-04-27 07:32:08 +0000, Alan Baker said: > >> On 2018-04-26 11:44 PM, Your Name wrote: >>> 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. >> >> So you admit your comments about people with no choice were irrelevant... > > No, what I said was the survey proved "72% of the 580 people they > bothered to ask perfer Macs" ... it does not remotely show that "72% of > employees prefer Macs". No. What the survey said was: "72 percent of employees who are offered the choice between Mac and PC chose Mac" The fact that they asked 580 people what the preferences were within their respective organizations doesn't equate to "72% of the 580 people"
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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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