Lots of small samples, if the assumption is that they are drawn from
the same population, when averaged, tend to be accurate predictors of
the population average. So your idea about gather data on different
sites would give you a somewhat accurate idea of what the real numbers
are.

larry

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:20:24 -0400, Jim Davis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I never claimed this reflected anything but the readership of those two
> sites.  I'm sorry if I seemed to indicate otherwise.  Although those two
> sites (my mostly computer and tech site and my brother's performance
> stock-car site) get about equal traffic and have widely differing audiences.
>
> Seeing the bigger sites would definitely provide an answer appropriate to
> the "general public" label, but I would think that Google and Yahoo's
> numbers would be the absolute best (since news sites have only news but
> eventually everybody searches).  ;^)
>
> Still - collecting the data from a lot of small-to-medium, widely disparate
> sites can definitely give you an idea of things.
>
> Jim Davis
>
> i dont think you can possibly deduce that this is indicative to the
> "general public"
>
> lets see the stats for cnn.com, msnbc.com, cnet.com
>
> that would be the REAL litmus, i think.  geeks are making the exodus,
> firefox, etc...i for one am not, but i feel a trend in this direction
> just by the chatter on this and other lists.
>
> wouldnt you think?
> tw
>
>
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