Captainhawk1
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"...The reality is, you folks may know a little about Blu Ray but you don't know jack about marketing or market research. Why do you think that you know better than Harris?"
Well Mr Capatinhawk 1 (aka employee of Harris),
Pretty bold statements to members of a bluray forum...
but i'll cut to the chase. Do you know where these polls were actually conducted? They were conducted online... therefore; true ages, genders, incomes, and any other answer can seriously be thrown out as innacurate. Online polls are unscientific for many reasons. You, who obviously works for Harris and/or is a HD-DVD buyer yourself, should know this if you are over the age of 10.
This is from the final page of the Harris Report
"This Harris Poll was conducted online within the United States between April 13 and 21, 2009, among 2,401 adults (aged 18 and over). Figures for age, sex, race, education, region and household income were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents’ propensity to be online. All sample surveys and polls, whether or not they use probability sampling, are subject to multiple sources of error which are most often not possible to quantify or estimate, including sampling error, coverage error, error associated with nonresponse, error associated with question wording and response options, and post-survey weighting and adjustments. Therefore, Harris Interactive avoids the words “margin of error” as they are misleading. All that can be calculated are different possible sampling errors with different probabilities for pure, unweighted, random samples with 100% response rates. These are only theoretical because no published polls come close to this ideal. Respondents for this survey were selected from among those who have agreed to participate in Harris Interactive surveys. The data have been weighted to reflect the composition of the adult population. Because the sample is based on those who agreed to participate in the Harris Interactive panel, no estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated."
What??? They admit errors can be made? Wow... And, they took out all the answers from minors, so, how many adults exactly does that leave the poll? We aren't informed of that.
But, here is the biggest flaw... WHERE WAS THE POLL POSTED ONLINE?? How were the people notified/asked to take the poll? Was there a link on an HD-DVD Forum???????? Was it posted on a travel booking site???????? Was it sent by spam to random people's email addresses??????? was it sent to people who purchased a magazine subscription to Cabela's??????? This all matters.
Online Polls (including ones on Bluray.com and walmart.com or wherever) can be *and probably are* extremely innacurate.
Such a D-Bag.
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