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Re: "Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge" or "Debian commits suicide"



On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 19:28, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> perhaps Nathanael was limiting his statement to the set of caring
> developers. perhaps he was using statistical methods to extrapolate the
> opinion of the majority. if the latter, a sample size of 20% is very
> large. i am not a statistician, so perhaps a real statistician would
> like to give a margin of error on this poll.

Actually, you can't extrapolate from a sample that was self-selected.

-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>



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