Bernd Stramm said the following on 05/03/2010 07:13 PM Pacific Time:
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.
Wow. It didn't take long :)
http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/monty-python-does-the-fedora-deve...