Posted by mbstevens on 03/29/07 17:36

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:44:10 +0300, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> Now, please tell me what the purpose of this survey is. Why do you care what
> other people, such as a dozen people who care to answer your survey, are
> using or claim to be using?

Yet caring is still so common.
People have used vague surveys since the birth of pseudo-statistics,
when the first advertiser crawled out of the swamp in the Carboniferous
period. One of the best non-technical antidotes, for people who still
read, is an old book by Darrel Huff called "How to Lie with Statistics."

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