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For those who think antenna problems are isolated cases
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Agreed poll that anyone can vote whatever they want to skew results doesn't really convince me of anything.
I agree. If you're participating in the poll in the first place, there is a chance you're a member of a forum such as MacRumors..which represents a very small amount of Apple's users.
This chart has me convinced that this is a scientifically controlled study with no leading questions or selection bias.
People without problems won't be looking for solutions on the internet and won't come across this poll. On the other hand, people with problems will seek out solutions on a site like this and will vote in this poll. The numbers are bias.
It's really not supposed to.
The point it makes is that these "problems", which are either real or perceived, are NOT isolated and it is not just due to a "vocal minority".
Even if you take all the "yes" votes, decrease them by 50% (due to error or whatever), it still shows that this "problem" is not just popping up as a few isolated cases.
And even you take everyone else in the US who hasn't responded and placed them in the "no" category, 14,000 iPhones is nothing to shrug at. 14,000 defective products that could potentially need to be replaced is rather large.
True. But, it does have a little nice "control" in it, for people who would say that people not having trouble are less likely to participate in the poll. 19,000 people who don't even own an iPhone 4 voted in the poll.
Considering that analysts are saying that apple sold about 1.5 million iPhones 14,000 would be less than 1% seems like the vocal minority to me
This poll doesn't mean "nothing". It means about half of MacRumors.com readers are affected.
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You don't research a product before you buy it? There are also plenty of us who are holding out for the White iPhone or couldn't get one at launch. We're frequenting the boards as its a good way to keep up occupied during the extra month we have to wait.
I'm not saying it's representative of a larger population. Just of MacRumors readers.
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Me thinks you've not seen the sarcasm watermark.
Yes, I would’ve thought that, but he’s been so serious in all his other posts.
Possibly. What’s the percentage of trolls on here.
The forum population is not the same audience that reads the front page. So it's not useful to try to correlate them.
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Please try to be civil. Good grief. There IS a problem. I'm just trying to figure out exactly how bad it is.
What you have though is members who see this poll using it to suggest almost 50% of iPhone 4 users have a problem. Im not sure what the real % is, but one way these results are skewed is by the simple fact that many posters come here to find out about their iPhone problems. So, the real % lies somewhere between almost 0% and 50%.