Comment Re:haha (Score 2) 119
But any competent marketing department would get the hint when 589,141 out of 668,872 people disliked a proposed change.
You need to poll far less than 30% to get a statistically significant result representing the wishes of those 1,000,000,000 idiots.
"Statistically Significant" doesn't really make sense here...that sort of computation assumes that the people being surveyed are a representative sample of all users.
In this case we've got a pretty strong selection bias going on where people who are most upset about the new policy are the most likely to vote.