Posted August 22, 2017
Caesar.: You are giving a disproportionate importance to a specific piece of evidence without questioning it because it fits your expected results
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professional statistical study
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I don't know how to keep debating without repeating what I have already said. I have never enjoyed neverending quote wars. I think at this point we can assume no one is going to change the other's views.
Lin545: What do you mean with "giving disproportionate importance"? There is one poll, I shared its results, thats it. You covered it with validity bias, like "it must be Linux users sturming over it, because I think so (aka common sense)". Thats same for someone to claim Web statistic is sturmed by Windows users on purpose. ...
professional statistical study
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I don't know how to keep debating without repeating what I have already said. I have never enjoyed neverending quote wars. I think at this point we can assume no one is going to change the other's views.
I never claimed to know why the amount of Linux users is so big in that poll (although experience tells us possible reasons). It's a futile exercise. You can't extract accurate conclusions from that online poll.
You mention web statistics. They can be used to obtain accurate results, because they don't work anything at all like an online poll. They collect data from every single user (and if they can't collect it from a specific user, it is stored as "unknown/no data" and taken into account). But the statistics refer only to the visitors of the website that is collecting thedata. Without proper research, you can't assume that the visitors of the website represent a whole fanbase.