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Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day


From: Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:24:29 -0700

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 21:42, Cameron Byrne <cb.list6 () gmail com> wrote:
....>
Pure speculation here, but these stats that you refer to are not a
scientifically representative sample of the internet at large, this
sample is a self selecting group of people who have chosen to run an
ipv6 test.

Commonly called sample bias.  Good statistical analysis will
address (and adjust for) such bias, but that can be (very) hard
work.  As with all the "CNN polls", there should be a disclaimer
on such sites that say "this is not a scientific poll", but that
would ruin the fun.....

Gary


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