Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:03:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ian Struble <ian@majesticnet.com> Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p Message-ID: <19971016130306.15812@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971015192749.ian@majesticnet.com>; from Ian Struble on Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 07:23:00PM -0700 References: <199710150539.AAA22275@nospam.hiwaay.net> <XFMail.971015192749.ian@majesticnet.com>
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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
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