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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:04 am, Bob Foster wrote:
> Tony Lavinio wrote:
> > 1. We emailed over 75,000 IT professionals, and also had the
> > survey posted on our website. We obtained email address from
> > tradeshow lists, direct marketing lists, registered customers
> > and our entire customer prospect list. We did not as some
> > have suggested ask just the XQuery SIG :).
> >
> > 2. 550 completed surveys were submitted.
> >
> > 3. Of the 550 people who submitted complete surveys, 477
> > indicated that they currently use or plan to use XQuery this
> > year.
> >
> > 4. This is a huge sample size... to put things in perspective,
> > last year, media news outlets were trying to determine the
> > outcome of the US presidential election using smaller sample
> > sizes.
>
> It's a self-selecting sample. The result has no validity at all.
> Obviously, most of the people who replied had some interest in XQuery.
> The only result you got was 99.3% of IT professionals surveyed don't
> respond to spam.
>
I think you also may have miscalculated.
Look again, the calculation should be 477 / 75,000 * 100
So that by my linux calculator is 0.636% !!!!
That's .6 of 1%
A very, very low figure indeed.......
So, by my reading, of the 75,000 it's likely that 0.6% used xquery. I think
that is more reasonable.
Obviously what may have happened is that the statistics passed through the
"marketing" department for a little "airbrushing" on their way out....
They misread .6% and revised it to 7% then upwards of 70%... finally the
figure they needed for the printing.... the letter spacing finally fitted....
Maybe these are the lost workers from that big auditing company that ran into
problems lately......
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