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Offline HammerD

Re: PPC accelerator poll
« on: November 04, 2010, 04:33:28 AM »
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It's nice to read all the opinions and experiences in this thread, quite a variety :)

I will apply some statistical analysis to the results once the poll runs it's course at the end of the month.  A stats professor at my University has written an excel spreadsheet for me that will do this.

He said to me if you estimate a total population size of 2000, 5000, or 10000 possible users, the poll has a plus or minus accuracy rate of 9.5%.

Extrapolating those numbers out based on the population estimate could give you an estimate of possible sales.

For example, currently the poll has 38% of respondents saying "Yes!".

38% of various estimated population sizes is:

For 2000 Users: 760
For 5000 Users: 1900
For 10000 Users: 3800

The variance is plus or minus 9.5% as I stated.

At least that is how I interpret what the Professor has said to me.  But once the poll is finished I will ask him exactly how to interpret the results and I can even post the spreadsheet here. ;)  I'm by no means a stats expert so I could be totally wrong.
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