Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 17:03:19 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com> To: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Message-ID: <54db43990704091403y6101de73pbfdccff003d804aa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0704060640h528a9d11o422bddf6d64a395f@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <20070405103708.GC842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <ef10de9a0704050839g7b873dabw5a5e211140781781@mail.gmail.com> <20070405180711.GA60539@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <ef10de9a0704060640h528a9d11o422bddf6d64a395f@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4/6/07, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/5/07, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > > > > > > 98.83% of us have at least a i686 and 62.6% of us have at least a i786 > > > (SSE2) processor. > > > > And 73.45% of all statistics are mainly made up of hot air. > > > ... > > > > What makes you think those stats are even half-way accurate or > > useful. It is probably a highly biased sample. > > > > I don't appreciate being called a lier. Maybe you should step up to > the plate if you don't believe my statistics. > So you aren't a liar. We'll just assume you don't know much about statistics. [...] > > Data source: http://www.bsdstats.org/cpus.php Self-selecting samples are always biased, and statistics generated from them tend to be meaningless. The numbers at bsdstats.org can only provide minimums, not maximums (i.e. "there are at least N 486 systems in the world running FreeBSD", not "there are no more than N 486 systems in the world running FreeBSD"), and are useless for this sort of argument. - Bob
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