Re: Can we have a debate?
mattbee@soup-kitchen.net wrote:
>
> In article <[🔎] E131yfc-0000Ij-00@greebo> you wrote:
>
> >> Additionally, those who vote may represent 99% of our user base, or 0.01%,
> >> we can never tell for sure, only make a more or less clever guess.
>
> > A vote on slashdot will represent a reasonable percentage. And it is on its
> > way at the moment.
>
> > It is of course no base for stats, but it is still interesting what it will
> > come to.
>
> But there'll never be a 100% guaranteed way to poll Debian users'
> opinions. I asked for the third `I don't use Debian' option in order to
> weed out the people who just like filling in polls, and it seems to have
> attracted about 57% of the votes :) I'd hope this means that the
> remaining votes are more representative than they'd otherwise be.
>
> At the end of the day, it's the 500 or so developers who have the deciding
> vote on this, but I think their view is far /less/ likely to be
> representative of the Debian userbase than that of the 2,500 (and growing)
> people who have passed by Slashdot's polling booth in the last few hours.
> That is, unless you're harbouring the grandest conspiracy theories about
> Slashdot's polling system and the tenacity of ballot-stuffers on this
> issue.
Though there is this, Slashdot's own disclaimer:
"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot
stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do
anything important- you're insane."
:-)
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