On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Geoff Wicks <gtwi...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Plastic" <plasticu...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:08 AM > > To: <ql-us...@q-v-d.com> > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The Spring 2011 QL Survery > > Hi all! >> >> I now have 55 respondents. The results so far have definitely upset a few >> of >> my pre-existing views. Fascinating. >> >> I will close the survey on February 28th and release the full results on >> March 1st. >> >> I'll be sharing preliminary results with a few people before then, as the >> trends are fairly well defined at this point, so we can put some >> interesting >> commentary and interpretations in before that time. >> >> > I don't want to pour cold water on what was a commendable initiative, but > just a word of caution. > > Most respondents, perhaps all, are subscribers to this list. We are not > typical of the QL Community. > > This has been Quanta's big mistake. Everyone, committee and members, > assumed Quanta was the definitive voice of the UK QL community. > > We now know that there are twice as many non-Quanta UK QL-ers than there > are Quanta UK QL-ers. > > All the same I shall look forward to seeing the results, > As I discussed with others off-list, yes, I fully acknowledge the limitations of polling a single community. I will just publish the results and invite the list to draw their own conclusions publicly. I think there are some interesting trends that are so strong they would not necessarily be THAT different if polling a different community. So, yes, pinch of salt. Not completely dismissed either. Next time, I will try to co-ordinate with the Quanta magazine so the poll will be open in time for QL users and Quanta members to both access the poll. If Quanta would be interested in that... Next poll will focus on software, OS choices, and emulators. Dave (who can hear the accusations of anti-hardware bias in that poll coming over the horizon now!) _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
