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zymhan on Oct 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

No one is claiming that this is a scientific poll. You'd have to be naive to assume that the results could be generalized to the population at large. That doesn't mean this poll is useless.

andybak on Oct 1, 2014 [–]

Yes it does. It's a poll of all the people who chose to do this poll.

I suspect that is massively biased towards people who did drop Dropbox.

At the very least the results useless unless we can estimate the self-selection bias.

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