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==Quotation==
==Quotation==


<blockquote>You can prove any silly hypothesis by running a statistical test on tons of data.<br> <div align=right> Jim Albert<br> The Numbers Guy<br> ''Wall Street Journal''. 7 December, 2007</div></blockquote>
<blockquote>      
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
<br> <div align=right> George Bernard Shaw</div></blockquote>
 
==Forsooth==
==Forsooth==



Revision as of 20:24, 3 January 2008

Quotation

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.


George Bernard Shaw

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