Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:21:51 +1000 | From | CaT <> | Subject | Re: the ' 'official' point of view' expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion |
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:04:46PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I can't prove that the 1:5 ratio is wrong, but the point is that > claiming a 1:5 ratio was true based on the klive data is not better than > claiming it based on no data. But claiming it based on the klive data is > worse since people like you are getting the wrong impression it was > based on data that would have the quality for supporting such a > statement. > > The data simply has not the quality for such a statement. > Please read my two examples in [1] if you want to get an impression why > such problems can occur. > > [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/26/203
Also, one may wish to invest in the purchase of 'How to Lie with Statistics'[1] by Darrel Huff (ISBN 0-393-31072-8). An easy yet powerful little read.
[1] this is not meant to imply that anyone here is lieing, attempting to lie, thinking of lieing, wishing they were lieing or having anything to do with lieing, purposeful or otherwise.
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