Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 19:23:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Struble <ian@majesticnet.com> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p Message-ID: <XFMail.971015192749.ian@majesticnet.com> In-Reply-To: <199710150539.AAA22275@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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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
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