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Subject: Re: green bubble syndrome
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 23:24:48 -0000 (UTC)
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Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> On 2024-10-12 13:46:48 +0000, Wilf said:
>> On 11/10/2024 at 22:14, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
>>> On 11.10.24 21:11, Chris wrote:
>>>> Wilf <wilf21@is.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On 10/10/2024 at 17:28, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>>>> Apple sold 2.5 BILLION iPhones (as of 2023, so not counting 2024), and
>>>>>> you are trying to tell us that a survey of 1000 people is significant?
>>>>>> Quick question: How many times do you think 1000 goes into 2.5 billion?
>>>>> 
>>>>> If the sample is chosen properly (and that's the critical part), results
>>>>> from a small but representative sample of the whole population can be
>>>>> statistically significant.  So just because someone has no background in
>>>>> statistics is a not a reason to necessarily doubt the premise.
>>>> 
>>>> Correct.
>>> 
>>> No. It is not correct by any means.
>>> I still lack the proof that the sample is relevant.
>> 
>> That's my point.  We have to be persuaded that the sample was properly 
>> chosen.  Beyond that, the relatively small sample size does not in 
>> itself invalidate the significance of the results.
> 
> The results are only valid for the 1000 people they bothered to survey. 
> Claiming anything above that is pure nonsense and at best simply a very 
> rough guesstimate.
> 
> Such surveys should always specifically say something like "40% of the 
> people surveyed" ... *NOT* *EVER* simply "40% of people", because 
> that's where the novice general public then confuses it with being 
> reality for everyone, when it is not.
> 
> 
> 
> 

The article says exactly that!


For this study, All About Cookies surveyed 1,000 anonymous adults in July
2024 via Pollfish, a market research survey tool.

Among the iPhone users surveyed in the study, nearly a quarter — 22 percent
— admit that they look down on users that send "non-iMessage texts" (e.g.,
Android users). However, 78 percent of iPhone-owning participants say they
don't feel superior to green-bubble senders.