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> Popular hardware: > Keyboard, less than 50% > iPhone 4, 60% > Apple's incredibly overpriced cinema display, 75% > Popular softeare: > Chrome, on

by RyanZAG 13y ago

> Popular hardware: > Keyboard, less than 50% > iPhone 4, 60% > Apple's incredibly overpriced cinema display, 75% > Popular softeare: > Chrome, only web browser listed, roughly in line with winxp > winxp + win7 more than mac osx, yet most people using a mac? > google-reader more than mail ? There is something incredibly wrong with the data used by this article.

rlwolfcastle 13y ago
The data just represents the population it was taken from. The problem is the inference the author tries to imply.
scorpion032 13y ago
Hey, I am the author of the post. Here are some clarifications: - None of the values are the %. They are the actual number of people that said they use that ware. About 70 people said they use iphone 4 and about 40 people said they use the apple keyboard. - "keyboard" is a slug used for the Apple Keyboard. Half the people that were interviewed wanted to explicitly mention that they use that keyboard. - No one provided the interviewees with a set of names to tick if they used that hardware or software. In that case you'd have a comprehensive set of user-wares from which you could get the accurate info. I'd detest such an interview. I can not imagine why all of these people wouldn't. - What we have is a free form text where in the interviewee says whatever he's allowed to. When he says he uses a Mac, there is no reason why he'd also say he uses osx. - That would be redundant. - If people are asked what they like to consume, no one mentions water or cereals or vegetables, even though everyone has it. What is mentioned is the particular dish or a cuisine that they actually want you to know that makes them feel better. Likewise here, google reader actually helps a lot of these people and they want to share it with the readers. - It is much more what people like themselves to be associated with. Seth Godin has written a lot about it. People say Google reader much more than mail because they want to be associated with using it. "mail" here, btw is the slug to the actual Apple-Mail client. Hope it helps set a perspective on how this should be read.

by RyanZAG 13y ago

rlwolfcastle 13y ago

The data just represents the population it was taken from. The problem is the inference the author tries to imply.

scorpion032 13y ago

Hey, I am the author of the post. Here are some clarifications: - None of the values are the %. They are the actual number of people that said they use that ware. About 70 people said they use iphone 4 and about 40 people said they use the apple keyboard. - "keyboard" is a slug used for the Apple Keyboard. Half the people that were interviewed wanted to explicitly mention that they use that keyboard. - No one provided the interviewees with a set of names to tick if they used that hardware or software. In that case you'd have a comprehensive set of user-wares from which you could get the accurate info. I'd detest such an interview. I can not imagine why all of these people wouldn't. - What we have is a free form text where in the interviewee says whatever he's allowed to. When he says he uses a Mac, there is no reason why he'd also say he uses osx. - That would be redundant. - If people are asked what they like to consume, no one mentions water or cereals or vegetables, even though everyone has it. What is mentioned is the particular dish or a cuisine that they actually want you to know that makes them feel better. Likewise here, google reader actually helps a lot of these people and they want to share it with the readers. - It is much more what people like themselves to be associated with. Seth Godin has written a lot about it. People say Google reader much more than mail because they want to be associated with using it. "mail" here, btw is the slug to the actual Apple-Mail client. Hope it helps set a perspective on how this should be read.