Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue May 4 02:26:04 UTC 2010


Once upon a time, Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com> 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.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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