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- From: larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: about my survey - this should be 4
- Message-ID: <VVkeuB8w165w@lablues.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 16:43:54 EST
- Organization: L/A Blues BBS - Auburn ME (207) 777-3465 & 7782
- Lines: 58
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- When I posted my survey about Apple and its computers, a number of
- people (MANY) asked that I give them the results. DONE SO HERE BY!
-
-
- YES / NO answers were not counted. Thus, someone answering part of
- the survey with 0-9 type of answers and other questions with yes/no
- type of answers were removed from the results. In many cases,
- questions about Apple Computer Inc. were answered with negative
- numbers (with -infinity being the most emphatic effort); the natural
- thing to do would be to assign them the value "0"; however, is a
- negative 10 the same as a negative 15? I received many such replies,
- but I felt that if a person could not follow directions, then their
- value to the survey was questionable. I had made a "Mac" survey as
- well as one for the "II." People not indicating which of my surveys
- to which they were replying were eliminated as well. I will say that
- the "Mac" results "looked" better for Apple.
-
- I do not in any way want to disparage the worth of those who replied
- in such a way; when the topic is Apple Computer Inc., were I to
- discount such people, I would be casting out a large number of people;
- I just had no way of translating their answers to what I had asked
- them to do. In fact, most of the people who answered with yes/no
- entries and those using negative numbers, had the most interesting
- comments. Just to set the record straight, a number of people gave
- their Apple IIs larger values than "9," but no one wanted to give a
- value larger than "9" to Apple Computer Inc..
-
- This was somewhat problematical in that I really was not concerned
- about the answers as such. I wanted to know the differences between
- how people viewed Apple Computer Inc. and how they viewed their Apple
- II. I was also very interested in any comments; but, you will notice
- that I place very little emphasis on comments in the actual request
- for the survey; I said: "If a question does not apply, DO NOT ANSWER
- THE QUESTION! If you'd like to make a comment, please do so at the
- end of the questionnaire. The idea is to keep bandwidth to a
- minimum." Why keep "bandwidth to a minimum?" If you had ever been on
- an Apple II network or to a meeting of an Apple II user group, you
- would know why. Those like me, who dislike Apple Computer Inc., will
- take over the whatever for a considerable length of time; in the case
- of user group meeting - hours; in the case of a network - 50% or more
- of the daily messages for a week or more. We are an obnoxious group!
- But are we large in a marketing sense?
-
- I had more than 80 replies to my survey and used only 36 for the
- reason outlined above. I was disappointed with the numbers, but I've
- been told that that is a good result.
-
- As you can see, I screwed up the order - SORRY
-
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