Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:34:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p Message-ID: <199710161228.IAA24340@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <19971016130306.15812@lemis.com>
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On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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 > Drinking Milk leads to drug use. At least that is what a stat prof. once said in a class, just to make a point. Jamie Bowden System Administrator, iTRiBE.net Abusenet: The Misinformation Superhighway
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