LOL...ok, well, as long as you flagged it for violence.

I don't like statistics based on polls because I have been the victim of results of polls companies have done. I am of Latin American heritage and yet I fly in the face of most things companies claim I'm supposed to like or not like. And I don't feel I'm all that unique.

"Cris, the reason statistics work for large groups of people is because, as "groups" folks tend to behave in similar patterns expressed as commonalities. in other words, people who have similar situations, when acting as groups, tend to do the same thing, even though as indiviudals they may be utterly different. Folks don't particularly like that thought, but there's a pretty sizeable and incredibly effective marketing machine out there based on it. Not to mention insurance."

Sometimes, I think, this notion is more promotion than fact. Yes, people do things and behave in certain ways in large groups, but here, in the purchase and use of software, you really don't have group mentality because people don't purchase as a group. Martketing and forum opinion may sway some and not others. Most people don't even come to the forums or come only when they have a specific problem. But...we certainly see group mentality under certain situations in the forums, that is true. (BTW, the fact that the marketing machine is large and effective doesn't mean it right or good for us. W Just means the spin is working IMO.)

But, statistics, aside, it is interesting to see what people are using, of those responding.

Cris

Message edited on: 06/29/2004 03:34