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<blockquote> | <blockquote>Clearly, any product with a large user base is going to throw up some problems. Dell, for example, is shipping almost 40m PCs a year, so even if 95% of it users are happy, there could still be 6m or so with significant gripes.<div align=right>The Guardian <br>25 January 2007</div></blockquote> | ||
Revision as of 20:08, 3 January 2008
Quotation
You can prove any silly hypothesis by running a statistical test on tons of data.
Jim Albert
The Numbers Guy
Wall Street Journal. 7 December, 2007
Forsooth
The following Forsooths are from the January 2008 issue of RSS NEWS.
In terms of platform use trends among the respondents, 53% cited Windows as their primary technical computing platform, with Linux following closely at 51%.
NAGNews email (NAG User Íurvey 2006 on technical
computing trends)
August 2006
Clearly, any product with a large user base is going to throw up some problems. Dell, for example, is shipping almost 40m PCs a year, so even if 95% of it users are happy, there could still be 6m or so with significant gripes.
The Guardian
25 January 2007