Every week another survey about one tech trend or another is published. Want a reliable way to separate the wheat from the chaff? Review the study’s sample.
Studies that interview the wrong people may be biased. If the subject is databases, for example, Oracle employees will probably give you a company slant. Another common problem is asking people about subjects they are not qualified to talk about. How many business executives do you know who can discuss the technical merits of AWS versus OpenStack?
Due to concerns about tainting the sample, I have traditionally screened IT vendors from my own surveys. However, telecommunications and software companies are buyers as well as sellers of many infrastructure technologies The New Stack covers. After reviewing the data, we found that industry vertical may not be the best way to identify a representative sample
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