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Tony Lavinio wrote: > 1. We emailed over 75,000 IT professionals, and also had the > survey posted on our website. We obtained email address from > tradeshow lists, direct marketing lists, registered customers > and our entire customer prospect list. We did not as some > have suggested ask just the XQuery SIG :). > > 2. 550 completed surveys were submitted. > > 3. Of the 550 people who submitted complete surveys, 477 > indicated that they currently use or plan to use XQuery this > year. > > 4. This is a huge sample size... to put things in perspective, > last year, media news outlets were trying to determine the > outcome of the US presidential election using smaller sample > sizes. It's a self-selecting sample. The result has no validity at all. Obviously, most of the people who replied had some interest in XQuery. The only result you got was 99.3% of IT professionals surveyed don't respond to spam. Bob
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