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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