Re: Surveys in debian

2005-04-24 Thread Andreas Schuldei
after reading your feedback regarding my campaining effords I would be interested in what kind of things you heared about me. I would not really care about names, more about incidents or whatever. an other thing that i would like to ask you about is a more in-detail analysis of debian as a

Re: Surveys in debian

2005-04-24 Thread Andreas Schuldei
sorry, this was meant to be a private mail to MJ Ray. i am not really interested in public discussion of this topic at this point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Surveys in debian

2005-04-21 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 12:57:08AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: I have written a short page describing some surveys in and on debian. I also include some pointers to advice on producing good surveys. I'd welcome comments, corrections and suggestions, either on- or off-list. The page lives at

Re: Surveys in debian

2005-04-21 Thread MJ Ray
Andrew Suffield wrote: I'm rather fond of How to lie with statistics as an introduction to what it's all about, not least because it teaches extreme cynicism about anything that smells like a statistic. I like Darrell Huff's book too (and recommended it to my students when I taught), but I

Re: Surveys in debian

2005-04-21 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:25:52AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Andrew Suffield wrote: I'm rather fond of How to lie with statistics as an introduction to what it's all about, not least because it teaches extreme cynicism about anything that smells like a statistic. [...] By the way, I've been