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<blockquote data-quote="Dadeo" data-source="post: 601198" data-attributes="member: 27204">Unfortunately you just explained very clearly why market researchers give no validity to such polls.&nbsp; The results are pretty much useless since they are not based on any statistical principles and as you said can be completely skewed by &quot;twits&quot;.&nbsp; As 2BitSculptor pointed out, the poll is comparing apples to oranges not only in terms of OS. It is just a forum sticky post which any one can do, so we should not be expecting anything serious.&nbsp; It is posted on a site that only reports on XBMC and Boxee software. So it is not exactly a valid cross section of users accessing that site.I voted, mostly for amusement, but I caution everyone not to take the results seriously.&nbsp; If we really want to know about HTPC software, we need to do a professional market research study or at least one created by someone with some market research background.However, I must applaud the poll author fernando for an intelligent way of attracting more traffic to the HTPCBlog site! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dadeo, post: 601198, member: 27204"] Unfortunately you just explained very clearly why market researchers give no validity to such polls. The results are pretty much useless since they are not based on any statistical principles and as you said can be completely skewed by "twits". As 2BitSculptor pointed out, the poll is comparing apples to oranges not only in terms of OS. It is just a forum sticky post which any one can do, so we should not be expecting anything serious. It is posted on a site that only reports on XBMC and Boxee software. So it is not exactly a valid cross section of users accessing that site. I voted, mostly for amusement, but I caution everyone not to take the results seriously. If we really want to know about HTPC software, we need to do a professional market research study or at least one created by someone with some market research background. However, I must applaud the poll author fernando for an intelligent way of attracting more traffic to the HTPCBlog site! :D [/QUOTE]

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