Evolution

[Karl Larsen]

Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:22:45 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>> 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?
>>     
>
> The answer has already been given:
>
> #<name> is the package name;
> #<inst> is the number of people who installed this package;
> #<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly;
> #<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package
> #        regularly;
> #<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently;
>
> #rank name                            inst  vote   old recent
> 443   evolution                      509363 80793 404082 24432
> 587   thunderbird                    141871 45359 91515  4937 
>
> Check the vote-column. Evolution has almost twice as many regular users 
> as Thunderbird.
>
>   
    This is totally wrong. My check could not be that far wrong. Your 
thing is way wrong as a check of plain users shows Evolution is used by 
very few users.

Karl


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