On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Orcan Ogetbil said: >> The statistic talks. It doesn't only talk. It yells. Ignoring this >> test statistic in favor of the large pool of imaginary users, who >> supposedly think in the complete other direction, is not only >> non-scientific, stupid., but also self-conflicting. > > You claim you have taken grad-level statistics, but you don't appear to > understand how to select a sample. A self-selected sample on a web > forum (with no basis to show that forum members are representative of > the Fedora user base, much less that poll responders represent even the > forum users) does not lead to valid statistical results. It doesn't > matter how big the sample size is if the samples are not properly > selected. > > No, I exactly know how to select a sample. The forum based sample is "the" perfect sample. It is the users who talk. It is not the imaginary users, who you claim to exist. I do not care about your imaginary users. I do care about those who talk. Hence the statistic is significant. Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
