Wording of the question can have a much larger impact than sample size. This question is poor, because Apple products are given their own category while other products are not. As said above, they should ask people if they want a cell phone, and then ask people the brand.
Besides, a margin of error of less than 3% just means that, if you were to ask every human living in the U.S. that question, their answers would be within 3% of the poll's result. It doesn't mean people are actually going to go out of buy those items.
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Evan @ Oct 10th 2007 3:01PM
Wording of the question can have a much larger impact than sample size. This question is poor, because Apple products are given their own category while other products are not. As said above, they should ask people if they want a cell phone, and then ask people the brand.
Besides, a margin of error of less than 3% just means that, if you were to ask every human living in the U.S. that question, their answers would be within 3% of the poll's result. It doesn't mean people are actually going to go out of buy those items.