22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
12:06 p.m.
On Apr 21, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Mouse wrote:
Except that your reality is a *small* sample set. When you look at data
for 1,000,000's of components you'll see different results. Until you look at
And you have _ersonally_ looked at millions of components? Sorry, I've
seen too much bogus data already...
Extrapolating long tail effects from single samples does not yield
accurate results.
Neither does assuming that theory matches reality. truly large data sets and do the appropriate
statistical analysis all you're
really talking about is anecdotal evidence.
How coome 2 of use here (at least) seem to have contradictory findings?
It contradicts
tony's experience. It contradicts mine as well. Do you
have experience pointing the other way? (I would tend to assume not,
since if you had I would expect you to have mentioned it by now, but
assumptions don't make for good data either.)
Unfortunately I can't really point to it since it's proprietary to the companies