Evolution

[Karl Larsen]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:47 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>     What makes this list not representative? It is all Ubuntu users. And 
>> yes it is not 100 different users. But it is random which makes the 
>> statistics good.
>>     
>
> No it is not random with respect to users of Ubuntu.  Your sample space
> is messages sent by users on the Ubuntu users list.  This is likely not
> representative of all Ubuntu users. There is also the additional factor
> that a user sending many messages to the email list will be oversampled
> with your methodology. So even if the users on the Ubuntu list are
> representative of all Ubuntu users, you will over sample those who post
> the most messages.
>   
Assuming your right, the fact that as many as possible in the sample 
100, 12 users or less, use Evolution. So why is it the one sent with Ubuntu?

Karl


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