On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 00:51:28 -0400 esteemed RV did hold forth thusly:
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> You still don't get it. If your idea is followed as criteroia for Moz
> 1.0, it will never be releases. i would suggest that you review the
> concept of *bias of ascertainment* in a statistics textbook.
But if the current IE user base won't switch then why was it worth the
considerable expense to develop Moz in the first place?
People switched from NS to IE a few years back because IE was more stable,
faster, and more feature rich. It was better. Like many others I had NS 4.x
and IE 5 on my machine and had been a long time NS user who eventually
admitted that IE was better. If Moz could be made sufficiently better then
some of those users would switch away from IE.
> That is not the point. What the developers are trying to get is an idea
> of criteria that should be met before Moz 1.0 gets released. You are
> suggesting that 1.0 is done when a percentage of people like it. That is
> a flawed concept. It works the other way around.
It is not a flawed concept. How do you think that Ford or Toyota release a
new car? They use various methods to measure consumer response. Same with
Moz.
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> >Another approach would be to install Moz and IE on machines that are for new
> >users and then measure what percentage of users decide they prefer Moz. That
> >way the IE familiarity bias is avoided. This could be done at schools or
> >other settings where new PC users are trained.
> >
> Again, people who are used to IE interface will be baised for IE because
> thay can do things the way they are used to. They don't have to look for
> things and functions in different menus.
I said _new users_. People who have never used IE before. Such people exist.
