On Mon, 3 May 2010 22:04:11 -0400
Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Bernd Stramm wrote:
> On Tue, 04 May 2010 01:58:34 +0200
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
>
>> 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.
>
> I'm not sure what the poll was exactly, but a sample size of 183
> people makes it utterly meaningless considering the population size.
>
After all these years of academic studies, including graduate level
Statistics courses, I disagree with your conclusion.
Orcan
I disagree with the disagreement. For one thing, the poll can only
measure anything about the population that knows about it. That
population is a very small percentage of the Fedora users. And there is
no reason to assume that population is representative of Fedora users.
I too have years of academic studies, and I even graduated from a very
respectable institution with an advanced degree :)
Bernd
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