On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 01:07:23PM -0400, Andrew SB wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas<m...@canonical.com> > wrote: > > The absolute size of a sample is more important, statistically, than its > > relative size. In other words, 1136581 popcon submissions is a large > > enough sample regardless of how many Ubuntu users there are in total. > > What is more important now is reducing bias -- bias towards current > > users against potential users, towards users who fiddle with settings > > against users who don't, and so on. > > I was recently looking up some info for the upstream author of a > package I maintain in Debian and Ubuntu, and I saw that number. It's > pretty impressive that we have over one million submissions from an > opt-in program. In fact, Debian's number seems to be at only 84894.
That makes me suspicious in itself. I wonder if those one million submissions are due to an installer bug ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
