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> Here is the methodology we used: > > 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. So of the contacted 75000 people only 550 responded. This is less than 1% response -- this seems a very bad result to me... And not at all representative. If people were really interested, would only less than 1% respond? Can any conclusions (except that the survey was far from successful) be really drawn? Finally, is there any value at all in such a survey? Cheers, Dimitre
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