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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
But Quim-- you can't isolate that number vis-a-vis the poll. You have to look at percentages amongst the respondents.
But only if it's a meaningful sample size, and is an accurate representation of the larger population as a whole. Otherwise, it's just 60 anecdotal opinions, not a meaningful survey (in terms of capturing the desires of the market as a whole).

The fact that we're here makes us a self-selecting subset of not just the mobile market, but of the NIT market. We plainly do NOT include the NIT market subset that doesn't want to participate in web forums (I'm pretty sure I know one of them, maybe two), and the poll clearly doesn't include those members of the market that don't answer polls.

Are you really that sure that the market Nokia is aiming at with the new devices is accurately represented by the 60 people who answered the poll? Because, I'd really love to see that justification done in a rigorously scientific and statistically significant manner.

Odds are: we (the people on this forum) are not a statistically significant cross section of the market Nokia is after. Which would mean the poll is a biased subset of the market, not a cross section of the market ... and thus looking at its answers as a percentage of the respondents is not a meaningful representation of desires/opinions of the market as a whole.
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