From owner-freebsd-doc Mon May 10 11:25:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464CE14E75; Mon, 10 May 1999 11:25:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990510182740.HLXP7623210.mta2-rme@wocker>; Tue, 11 May 1999 06:27:40 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Jim Mock Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 06:25:33 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Something doesn't jive Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, webmaster@freebsdmall.com In-reply-to: <19990510223108.E45066@blues.ghis.net> References: <3735e6fb.559027550@news.pacbell.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990510182740.HLXP7623210.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 10 May 99, at 22:31, Jim Mock wrote: > However.. I've noticed alot of people don't bother to vote (if that's what > you'd call it) so I doubt the results would be very accurate. Not to > mention the number of visitors compared to the actual amount of users. > Personally I don't think the poll will produce any usable results. > Comments? Polls wherein the people have an option as to whether or not to participate are notoriously skewed and produce inaccurate results. Presumably this applies to polls on webpages but not to telephone polls. The former is optional (Oh!, there's a poll, I'll do it). The latter involves a slight degree of duress (Do you have time for this poll?) but, from what I've been told, produces much more accurate results. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message