OT: application statistics [was Re: Evolution]

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:47 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>     What makes this list not representative? It is all Ubuntu users.

There are Ubuntu users who are not on this list, and the list format and
content selects for the more technically interested parts of the
population?

>  And 
> yes it is not 100 different users. 

This is a problem, too.

> But it is random which makes the 
> statistics good.

It's anything but random. To repeat, it is highly self-selecting toward
a very specific type of user.