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