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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] The name of this mailing list is misleading
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] The name of this mailing list is misleading |
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Sun, 3 Oct 2004 01:23:10 +0100 |
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On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 05:18:48PM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote:
> As a practical matter, the current arrangement (subscriber only) seems
> to work well. At least, in the N years that arrangement has been in
> place, the actual complaints have been few and minor.
This is a classic form of a sample with a built-in bias. Your sample
excludes most complaints, because they're the people who have been
filtered out. The actual number of complaints that would exist in a
population test is almost impossible to determine.
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