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[Roger Clarke]

At 3:44 +0000 10/3/11, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>'Forty percent prefer 4G wireless broadband to fibre poll, equals NBN
>financial headache'
>By Stan Beer   Thursday, 10th March 2011  (snip)
>http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/beerfiles/45713-40-prefer-4g-wireless-broadband-to-fibre-poll-equals-nbn-financial-headache
...
>Out of 325 total votes, 59% said 'No, Australia needs both technologies,'
>while 40% said 'Yes, I would prefer to use wireless 4G in the future'.

Stan's (ab)use of the data is almost as bad as the ridiculous survey:
http://www.comparebroadband.com.au/article_879_Wireless-4G-no-threat-to-the-NBN.htm

Let's see now:
-  'Does wireless 4G technology pose a threat to the NBN?'
-   The only options that appear to have been available are only
     a fraction of the field of play:
     -   'No, Australia needs both technologies'
     -   'No, but NOT Australia needs both technologies'
     -   'Yes, I would prefer to use wireless 4G in the future'
     -   'Yes, but NOT I would prefer to use wireless 4G in the future
     i.e. the No was coupled with one irrelevant statement
     and the Yes was coupled with a differently irrelevant statement
-   only 3 out of 325 people voted 'Eh?  Pardon?'
-   no population, sampling-frame, sample selection method or
     response-rate were declared
-   it appears to have been the usual rubbish of take-whatever-comes
-   internal validity zero
-   external validity zero

Has the media not the slightest skerrick of scepticism about these 
rubbish polls?


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