On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 22:37 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> 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. > > You aren't a very good statistician if you care. thats an implicit bias. > ... which is far better than an imaginary bias. Orcan PS: No, I am not a statistician. But I know about the science of statistics to a good degree. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
