Re: Ok, heres just one pallet of 360's (390 per pallet!)
- From: The alMIGHTY N <natlee75@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:13:51 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 24, 8:52 pm, Jamal Bernhard <no_...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The alMIGHTY N wrote:
While it's tempting for someone looking for specific conclusion to
perceive the frequency of Xbox 360 complaints on newsgroups and forums
as representative of the whole market, such a perception is
nevertheless flawed as anyone who knows anything about scientific
polling will tell you.
As much as some people here would like to believe that the
participants in this newsgroup and in online forums are the very
definition of video gamers as a whole, that's just not the case. It's
quite simply a naive point of view.
But it's not really relevant that these folks do not represent video gamers as a
whole. We're talking about the hardware they play on, and their 360s are no more
or less likely to fail than the 360s of gamers who do not frequent newsgroups
and forums. So in that sense you can argue that it's a reasonable sample.
For you to have a scientifically valid sample, you need to actually
poll a sizeable group of people to find out whether they fall in one
category or another.
What GMAN refers to is a bunch of the more visible people who post to
and/or read this newsgroup offering, on their own, that their Xbox
360s failed multiple times.
Since at no point did everyone who did *not* experience this problem
post something to that effect, we cannot assume any sort of
scientifically valid sample at all.
To assume this would be like to go to a protest rally against abortion
and say, "Look at all these people who are against abortion. This must
mean that most people are against abortion." It just doesn't cut it.
Although, you could try to claim that gamers who frequent newsgroups and forums
tend to play a lot more than "typical" gamers. If that's the case, then their
increased use of the hardware may lead to a higher percentage of failures than
the general population.
Quite simply, the problem is that while people who have some sort of
gripe about something are exponentially more likely to "shout" about
it online than people who have no gripe about that same thing.
Like I said above, if you've experienced RROD even just once, you're
likely to be frustrated by the situation and feel a need to gripe
about it in an online forum, should you even be a person who bothers
reading any gaming newsgroup or website in the first place.
However, if you're a person who has never experienced RROD, there's
really no reason ever post anything about that unless you a) happen to
be a person who frequents some online forum and b) take it upon
yourself to try to splash your little bit of water on the raging fire.
Statistically speaking, just looking at the people who have been vocal
here about RROD is absolutely worthless as an indication of the degree
of the problem in the market.
.
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