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rumymommy	Post subject: And the survey says... Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 5:16 pm
Joined: Tue Aug 06, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 138	Terrible studies seem to be coming out of the woodwork lately. Here are two of the latest that really bother me, but I'm not going to win arguments with editors about their being invalid:<p>"The study [that said South Carolinians are pirating more software] reached its conclusions by comparing software sales against the estimated number of personal computers used in a state."<p>***Because if there are more computers sold than packages of AutoCAD or Microsoft Office, you can bet every one of those computers has a pirated version. Very scientific.***<p>"The growing popularity of CD burning and illegal song-swapping over the Internet has cut into online music sales, sending them tumbling 25 percent this year, according to a survey released today. The study ... found former Napster users flocked to alternative file-sharing networks such as KaZaA and Morpheus after Napster went offline in summer 2001."<p>***Did ALL of Napster's users find their way to these services? Not last I heard. And is the only possible reason for a decrease in online music sales? Nope. Correlation doesn't equal causation, that's right out of logic 101. The rest of the story I saw on the wire didn't help.
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