If you claim that something isn't a fact, you should point them all out, not just make a godly claim that they are.
And this is where you show that your not understanding my post, because primarily i wanted to just write up why using poll numbers to get statistical data is useless, not so much if the X360's die a lot or not because they are definitely dying at a higher rate than normal, but i can certainly prove to you that the poll on this board is inaccurate.
1. Sample size out of 10 000 000 consoles, you would need far more than 100 consoles, to have any number thats has a statistical value. A bare minimum of sample size required to get a result that can be said as 95% accurate would in this case (roughly calculated) be around 16.000 (assuming the consoles for the sample are the average of all consoles in terms of how old and how used they are)
2. Poll not accounting for multiple consoles\multiple replacements: Some people own more than 1 console, others own only one, but has had it replaced several time, others again has had 1 brake down and then received a proper working console, the number of working consoles thats missing from this is HUGE, because everybody that has had a console for repair, has a new refurbished working one. (assuming it didn't break down again, etc)
3. The Beyond 3D userbase is not an average representation of the console userbase as a whole. There is much more people who bought their consoles at launch\ near launch than in the average console population. Launch consoles are probably going to crap out on you more often than a console bought in december 2006.
I could keep going, but i think i've already made my point.
Oh and your line of thinking is making up a 20% number based on some finish poll, which certainly isn't accurate as well. Analysing something, if the numbers are flawed to begin with, is a waste of time, no matter how much time and work you put into it, your numbers aren't going to be correct anyway.
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