From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 29 12: 6: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from thneed.ubergeeks.com (thneed.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D5714D37 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by thneed.ubergeeks.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA17135; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:04:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) X-Authentication-Warning: thneed.ubergeeks.com: adrian owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:04:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: "Eric A. Griff" Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slashdot poll In-Reply-To: <035a01bed974$ceb450f0$c100000a@cfpower.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Eric A. Griff wrote: > This is a more specific link, and *BSD has moved up above macs, but still > only 4% =( I'm willing to bet that you'd get 4% for linux if the poll was on daemonnews, freebsdrocks, freebsdzine, etc. This is simply and example of why self-selection should never be allowed for poll participation if you want any accuracry at all. It means less than nothing. It's misleading. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message