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potatolicious
on Aug 11, 2009
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How Do IPhone Users Find New Apps?
190 participants, properly selected, can actually give extremely trustworthy results to a fair confidence interval. Sample size isn't everything...
aaronz3
on Aug 11, 2009
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Would you consider 190 participants that participated by clicking on an ad to be properly selected?
mredbord
on Aug 11, 2009
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Depends how well the ad was targeted and how well quotas were set and screened for. There's a few good ways to attract survey respondents through ads, and a whole lot of bad ways.
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