Dear OM --...Man, now talk about corny and condescending. Phaugh.
[..]As I mentioned above, this was a telephone survey, it did not run in the pages of InfoWorld or on InfoWorld Electric....Gee, I seem to recall an incedent in history that still tends to show just how valid phone polls are. Can you say Dewey defeats Truman?
We wanted to eliminate any bias. End of story....By how? Calling 300 people at random who are just "just" computer users? By deliberately excluding readers simply because they work for, as you put it, some company in the IT field? People who are readers, Rachel? Readers whose votes are just as valid as those you "randomly" picked for a phone call? By The Creator! If you call that not being biased, then I'd sure as hell love to see what you do consider as such.
Did we throw out the OS/2 results and keep the first survey? Nope. Whole new survey, same old ballot....Prove it, then. Post the results of the old ballot, complete with unaltered data, and let us compare it to that of the "new" poll. After all, since you've completed your new poll, the old results won't skew the new ones, now should they?
Unless, of course, Sandy Reed and the IW staff have something to hide...
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