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This poll is a spectacular example of selection bias, and the uselessness of polls. There's not a chance in hell that 20% of active Dropbox users have stopped
by bpodgursky 12y ago
This poll is a spectacular example of selection bias, and the uselessness of polls. There's not a chance in hell that 20% of active Dropbox users have stopped using it, even among tech circles.
I would be amazed if even 20% knew about this in the first place, and amazed if as much as 1/10 of those people truly stopped using Dropbox.
- zymhan 12y agoNo one is claiming that this is a scientific poll. You'd have to be naive to assume that the results could be generalized to the population at large. That doesn't mean this poll is useless.
- andybak 12y agoYes it does. It's a poll of all the people who chose to do this poll. I suspect that is massively biased towards people who did drop Dropbox. At the very least the results useless unless we can estimate the self-selection bias.
- Crito 12y agoNobody but a fool would ever mistake a poll on HN for a poll of the general population. The entire point of a poll on HN is to poll HN users, not the general population.
- mkopinsky 12y agoThis is not a poll of HN users. It's a poll of HN users who clicked a headline about dropping dropbox.