Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 17 Jul 1996 12:53:07 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Vote for Linux: stats |
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On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Alain KNAFF wrote:
[...] > >> > the real score is *drumroll*: 2921 Yes and 229 No. > >> > Yes, that's 92% against 8% :-) > >> > >> However it doesnt alter the fact people have been making multiple votes and > >> the like (both for and against). Don't count the vote as of any big value. > > [...] > >They probably sorted out all the double, tripple and quad votes.... > > The quickpoll.dat file doesn't contain enough information to sort out > these alleged double, tripple and quad votes. Most importantly, it > lacks the hostname where these originated from. Just looking at the > string of yes and no votes is not enough. If you have ten times more > yes votes than no votes, there is a 100% certainty that there is at > least one string of 9 yes votes in a row, and there is a very high > probability that there are many of these long "yes" strings. It's > basic number theory and statistics, just think about it.
But it is highly improbable that there be a large portions (50+ ? 100+ ? 500+ ?) of the yes vote in uninterupted blocks
> > Alain > Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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