Fake submissions?? Huh? By people who want to sell you fake Rolex watches?
My objection is that the obvious question -- do you "know" maxima is not asked. (Similarly Axiom, I guess). But see sci.math.symbolic for further discussion of statistics. On Nov 20, 3:07 am, Harald Schilly <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 20, 8:04 am, Peter Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My initial comment is that making virtually every question mandatory > > is likely to turn people off I agree. > or make them pick random answers to > > questions they don't want to answer. > > The last year I thought this too, but turns out most of the answers > were not random at all. No, I just had to go back repeatedly and say no, I don't know about this or that. Annoying. Right now there are 126 submissions, and > really a lot of text to read about in various topics. I assume that if > you take the time to write some sentences in each text box, you do not > select random answers. Not random in the sense of an appropriate distribution. Just random in the sense of who cares how much I know about linux or os x. As the old joke goes, How's your wife? Compared to what? > Of course, there are also fake submissions, but they are easy to spot > and of course nobody is forced to answer anything. It's just a process > to take some sort of snapshot of the community, distill it, and feed > it back to the community - self reflection and so on ... > > H -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
