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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: green bubble syndrome
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:22:06 -0000 (UTC)
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Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2024-10-11, Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
>>> On 10.10.24 08:25, Chris wrote:
>>>> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-10-09 14:30:27 +0000, badgolferman said:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you're an Android user, and you've been sensing some deep
>>>>>> tensions between yourself and iPhone users, you may not be
>>>>>> imagining it.  According to a new survey conducted by All About
>>>>>> Cookies, some iPhone users "think less" of others represented as a
>>>>>> green bubble while texting, which often depicts Android users.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Conversely, a notable number of Android users have considered
>>>>>> switching to iPhone. Not necessarily because they believe that
>>>>>> it's a better device, but because they've felt pressured or
>>>>>> ridiculed into making the change.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> For this study, All About Cookies surveyed 1,000 anonymous adults
>>>>>> in July 2024 via Pollfish, a market research survey tool.
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Wow! A whole 1000 ... what's that, 0.000000000000001% of users?
>>>>> What a cmoplete waste of time and money. There's absolutely nothing
>>>>> actually meaningful nor useful in that survey "result".  :-\
>>>> 
>>>> You've no idea how surveying works. If done correctly 1-2 thousand
>>>> ppl is a good sized survey. 
>>> 
>>> No it isn't. Statistically it is totally irrelevant.  The
>>> interpretation of these low quality results is simply impossible
>>> because the structure of the chosen sample is unknown (Age, gender,
>>> income, regional aspects etc etc.).
>> 
>> Hence why I said "if done correctly". You don't have evidence that the
>> sampling was done incorrectly.
> 
> No. That's not how the burden of proof works. The person (or in this
> case, the website) making the claim is responsible for proving their
> methodology is sound. And absent of that proof, the rest of us are
> completely within our right to disregard it as baseless. This really
> shouldn't need to be explained to educated adults, but here we are.
> 

You've completely misapplied burden of proof. 

This isn't an unsubstantiated claim where burden of proof would apply.
There is proof/evidence here: the result of the survey. 

You are welcome to disagree with it, but if you want to make an
unsubstantiated claim that it is meaningless the onus is now on you. 

Over to you...