Chance News 33
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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
Çlearlly, 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