Ok, Rachel tells us that the vote excluded
IT professionals because they aren't part of
InfoWorld's intended audience. Personally,
I think they should be concerned with thier
actual audience, but that's just me.
My print edition of InfoWorld just arrived.
Looking at the cover I see it described as
"The Voice of Client/Server in the
Enterprise". That is InfoWorld's own
description. Someone explain to me how that
excludes IT professionals.
I'm now taking a look at the text
surrounding the new vote burried deep in the
magazine (page 92 for those of you having
trouble finding it). I see the
following quote "we have a true readers'
choice". Rachel has proven that to be
incorrect. The suvey/poll/vote was not
merely
limited to readers. It was limited to
subscribers that were not involved in the IT
profession. An alarming misrepresentation.
I read further to see the following: "We
selected a sample audience on an nth
name random basis among InfoWorld's
subscribers". Rachel has indicated this to
be incorrect. Rachel has told us that the
sample audience was first narrowed down to
non-IT professionals. The above is a
misrepresentation. At no point did this
text indicate any filtering of the audience
other than randomness amongst InfoWorld
subscribers.
In my opinion, InfoWorld has some legal
issues to answer to. Considering how Rachel
has told us the polling was done and how it
was represented, I believe InfoWorld may be
guilty of fraud and/or misrepresentation.
It's certainly worth a formal investigation.
Please note that these are suspicions mine
and nothing more. I have no more proof than
what you see above. I am not saying
InfoWorld actually did these things. I'm am
saying that there appears to be enough
evidence to warrent an investigation.
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