Re: green bubble syndrome

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

On 2024-10-10, Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2024-10-09 14:30:27 +0000, badgolferman said:

 
If you're an Android user, and you've been sensing some deep
tensions between yourself and iPhone users, you may not be imagining
it.  According to a new survey conducted by All About Cookies, some
iPhone users "think less" of others represented as a green bubble
while texting, which often depicts Android users.
 
Conversely, a notable number of Android users have considered
switching to iPhone. Not necessarily because they believe that it's
a better device, but because they've felt pressured or ridiculed
into making the change.
 
For this study, All About Cookies surveyed 1,000 anonymous adults in
July 2024 via Pollfish, a market research survey tool.

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Wow! A whole 1000 ... what's that, 0.000000000000001% of users? What
a cmoplete waste of time and money. There's absolutely nothing
actually meaningful nor useful in that survey "result".  :-\

 
You've no idea how surveying works. If done correctly 1-2 thousand ppl
is a good sized survey.

 
Apple sold 2.5 BILLION iPhones (as of 2023, so not counting 2024), and
you are trying to tell us that a survey of 1000 people is significant?
Quick question: How many times do you think 1000 goes into 2.5 billion?

You're doing a numerical comparison not a statistical one. Population
samples which are tiny fractions of the whole can be very reliable. There
is a whole scientific field of statistical sampling.

The article also tells nothing about how these people were selected or
approached for questioning - but you're certain the outcome is relevant?

I explicitly said I wasn't certain. Note the "if".

You, however, are certain they are not relevant based on literally no
evidence other than dumb maths.

Do you work for a circus, by chance?
 
I know many people who use iPhones. I don't know any of them who think
less of anyone simply due to what kind of phone they happen to use.

Lol. You are literally arguing that your tiny n of a highly biased set is
more significant than when n = 1000 in a formal survey. jfc.

And
while I realize this is anecdotal, I find it hard to believe

Well done for revealing your internal bias.

a
significant number of iPhone users even care about such a trivial thing.
This whole thing smacks of anti-intellectual tribalism (aka zealotry)
being pushed by trolls.

The only evidence of "anti-intellectual tribalism" is coming from you.