Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Robert Fraser wrote:Yes, but it's a representative (albeit small) sample of the user base.That I disagree with. I mean... you're just saying it. Participation to a newsgroup is not necessarily correlated with much else than interest and available time.
Exactly! If it was correlated with a particular type of user (i.e. users who work a lot with linguistics corpora...) you might get a rather skewed sample.
