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    SubjectRe: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion
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    On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:06:04PM +0200, andrea@cpushare.com wrote:
    > JFYI: all statistics only take a sample of the larger space, the whole
    > point of having a statistic is because you can't measure the total.
    > The smaller the sample compared to the total, the less the stats are
    > accurate

    Definitely not true in general. If I wanted to know the gender ratio at
    the latest OLS I'd take the results from a sample of a dozen chosen
    randomly over the results from a sample of hundreds all taken from the
    men's room.

    For exactly the same quality of sampling, yes, the larger the better,
    but the point of diminishing returns comes pretty quickly. So given
    limited resources it's probably more important to work on the quality of
    the sample rather than on its size....

    --b.
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