Don’t Read Too Much Into Every Number You See [NUMBERS]
We’ve been tipped off by multiple people to the results of an interesting “survey” that came out not too long ago: how many people prefer an iPad over the Galaxy Tab? The survey was run by analyst Gene Munster of the Piper Jaffray group, and he came up with the following number: 85%. I wouldn’t call foul if actual market performance reflected this “research,” but there’s a reason I put that word in quotes: he only asked 65 people. I’m not saying that the iPad isn’t highly favored over the Galaxy Tab by a large margin (I even told folks they should buy an iPad over a Galaxy Tab if they needed a tablet this holiday season), but we won’t report on research where the sample size is not much larger than the amount of players on an American football team. Actually, we just did. But for all the right reasons. [via Business Insider]