The very nature of this survey is heavily skewed. DX World is not a website than Barry Baofeng, Nathan Netminder or Hammy Hambone are ever going to visit.
- pjd -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Phil Hystad via Elecraft Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 1:09 PM To: Bob McGraw K4TAX Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] DX World Transceiver survey Surveys that collect information from the users of the service or product don’t usually publish volume or number of units sold. They will publish information on numbers of persons surveyed or break down numbers per product type. It is a totally different type of “survey” that reports on product comparisons including units sold and so forth. That kind of survey is what you would expect from a Consumer Reports product review, not a survey of users. Usually, a survey that requests you to pick from a selection of products is no different then a high school popularity contest. And, most surveys are like this. Including those political polling surveys. But, there are serious surveys too. I once did a survey for Consumer Reports on a new car purchase. It took me 30 minutes to finish. I think it had on the order of 100+ questions. It was years ago and not even an on-line survey. I can’t remember how many pages were involved but it was enough to result in an extra heavy return envelope though postage was prepared. I had to mark a whole lot of little check boxes and so on with a black pen. 73, phil, K7PEH > On Aug 15, 2018, at 9:11 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX <rmcg...@blomand.net> wrote: > > And it does not consider the volume or number of units sold either. Rather > poor constructed survey, in my opinion. More like a high school popularity > contest. > > 73 > > Bob, K4TAX > > > On 8/15/2018 11:07 AM, Peter W2IRT wrote: >> Up to 2nd place now, but not a good representative sample. 100 votes for >> Icom, >> 82 for Elecraft, 69 for Yaesu, 53 for Kenwood as of the time of this writing. >> >> - pjd >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net >> [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] >> On Behalf Of Peter Pauly >> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 11:49 AM >> To: Elecraft Reflector >> Subject: [Elecraft] DX World Transceiver survey >> >> Elecraft is currently in 4th place. You know what to do... >> >> https://dx-world.net/worldwide-transceiver-survey/ >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to li...@w2irt.net >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to rmcg...@blomand.net >> > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to phys...@mac.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to li...@w2irt.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
