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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:34:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p
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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

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