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Re: Desktop Linux Survey
by Sebastian Kügler on Thursday 23/Aug/2007, @03:20

Nope as in "no one knows" or "there isn't"? :-)

The results look a little suspect to experiences I've seen in other fields. If 25% of the total number of votes have indeed been cast in only one night, it looks like someone wanted to screw up the results. On the other hand, it's easy to interpolate in that case (but probably no one will). It doesn't do the value of the survey any good (but then online surveys are always subject to this kind of fanboy manipulation, which is why they should be taken with a grain of salt in any case).

"There are lies, damn lies and statistics" as some smart individual once noted. A nice, but unrelated site that deals with what's hidden behind numbers is freakonomics.com, by the way.

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Re: Desktop Linux Survey
by Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday 23/Aug/2007, @05:13

There isn't -- I was a little surprised by one of the spikes myself and tried to enter a second vote, just to check whether they checked. Since I succeeded, I assume that at least at one point in time there were no checks at all.

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