But Brian - you've assumed in turn that the user community represented by those two figures 6 months apart is the same people. Only then are these hard evidence.
What adjustment would need to be made to take account of a change in virginradio's demographic, nature of any promotions running, change in online ad targetting etc? Maybe they ran a campaign aimed at mac users, or on a site whose user figures are heavily skewed towards mac users.. or... or.... Nothing's as easy as we'd like it to be :-) Peter On 10/04/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Isn't the first, great mistake that people make with statistics to believe that everyone else does what they do? Assume makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me"... Can I refer people to this message, just posted which shows a 64% increase in Mac usage (to 2.87%), and a 1% drop in Windows usage (to 96.39%)... Real hard evidence, people! Brian Butterworth www.ukfree.tv --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Cridland Sent: 06 April 2007 20:36 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Browser Stats I'm coming late to this discussion, as always, but if you're interested, here's the information from virginradio.co.uk (sitewide). Visits by operating system in March 2007 (compared with November 2005) Windows: 96.39% (was 97.45%) Macintosh: 2.87% (was 1.75%) Linux: 0.48% (was 0.55%) Unknown: 0.25% (was 0.21%) SunOS: 0.01% (was 0.03%) FreeBSD: 34 visits OS/2: 5 visits OpenBSD 1 visit > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Northrop > Sent: 10 April 2007 12:57 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] OS choice > > Jason Cartwright wrote: > > I've recently 'switched' [1] (damn you Apple marketing > dept!) from an > > XP desktop to a Macbook as my main computer. Its been > almost flawless > > (unlike all the Vista problems we keep hearing about), and a bit of > > revelation after being a complete Windowsite since 3.0. > > Sorry, but "Me too". Almost exactly the same story. On a Mac > Mini though, so it's a bit slow! > > -- > From the North, this is Kirk > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.0.0/754 - Release > Date: 09/04/2007 22:59 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.0.0/754 - Release Date: 09/04/2007 22:59 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
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