From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 15 19:27:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA27092 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 19:27:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from majesticnet.com (host2.majestic.sysci.org [205.227.182.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA27087 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 19:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ian@majesticnet.com) Received: (from ian@localhost) by majesticnet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA14301; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 19:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199710150539.AAA22275@nospam.hiwaay.net> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 19:23:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Struble To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 15-Oct-97 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: >Be sure to count the users of Yahoo! and ftp.cdrom.com in your tallies. >Start with a reasonable 0.1 multiplier as BSDi uses, but then how many >unique users 1000 (or whatever) simultaneous user 24 hour average work >out to be? Add that to the 15000 registered users, multiply by a >percentage of a percentage correction factor derived from the Linux >site. And eventually you can prove FreeBSD has more users than earth >has humans. :-) > >Write it up correctly and http://www.improb.com/ will publish it. > >I've heard of a book or booklette named, "How to Lie With Statistics". >Does this book really exist? If so, where could I find one? Go talk to a Statistics Professor at your nearest University. I am sure they could give you some pointers. 'Give me a statistic and I can prove anything' is something that one of my Stats profs used to say. And I tend to believe him! Ian