On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 01:58 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > Please stop banding about the forum poll as if it were some sort of > > scientific measure with meaningful results one could use as a basis for > > decision making. > > It's the best data we have. Bad data is worse than no data. > > > It was none of that. All it gave us was info we already had. Some users > > would like more adventurous stuff, while some users would not. We already > > had that information, the poll told us nothing new. > > The poll told us an approximate proportion, which is so far from 50-50 > (72.13%) that we clearly have a statistically significant majority, also > considering the sample size N=183. If you want me to actually compute some > p-values and do statistical tests, I can do that, but to me the numbers look > obvious. > > Now you may try to argue that the sample is biased, but you have no actual > evidence towards that. Of course the sample is biased. It's a sample of people who frequent the forums, that's a self selecting group of people, by no means a worthwhile representation of the Fedora user base as a whole. > > In the absence of better data, the data we have is what we should use as the > basis for our decision, not your personal opinion nor some imaginary "silent > majority" which never has been proven to exist. > > If you aren't happy with the data, start collecting some better one! > > Kevin Kofler > Proper scientific data collection is hard, really hard. To do it right would take a lot of time and engineering and even argument. I don't want to put in that time, nor do I think we could ever be able to truly have a good representation as we have no hard data on who all uses Fedora, and in which ways. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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