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Originally Posted by janh
The previous polls tested "DRM", but if you read my description above, this one gauges something else: How DRM "skews" the perception of the original product to be sold. It does not question whether you like or dislike DRM etc. That is entirely different.
I am testing a hypothesis here: Over the past weeks I got the impression that despite the shortcomings and bugs of SHV, it would have been received at least as well as SHIV or SHIII, maybe even better, but only for the DRM on top of that most people really saw it as a much worse product that it perhaps would be without the OSP-DRM. I know this would be only a tiny comfort to the developers, but if true it would indicate that this kind of "OSP" customer binding does cause significant damage to reputation, rating and sales.
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Then what are your antecedent and threshold? A hypothesis must originate with a given, not an impression. Also, what will be your accepted margin of statistical error?