From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 15 20:34:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA00476 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA00467 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:33:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA19997; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:03:07 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971016130306.15812@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:03:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ian Struble Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p References: <199710150539.AAA22275@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Ian Struble on Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 07:23:00PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 07:23:00PM -0700, Ian Struble wrote: > > 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! I remember that somebody I worked with had discovered a positive correlation between orange juice consumption and testicle size. Greg