Jonathon Blake wrote:
> The majority of participants on the OOo mailing lists have email > addresses that are physically located in the US.
My email addresses are "located" there, but *I* most certainly am not, except on those occasions when I happen to be travelling there. I suspect many other people are in the same situation.
> The appearance is that the most active participants of the various > lists are physically located in the US.
See above. Appearances can be very deceiving.
> [Majority here does not mean 50% + 1. It means "more than from any > other country. So if there are 11 yankees, 10 kiwis, 9 canucks, 8 > ozzies, 7 limeys, and 5 frogs, the US still has the majority, even > though only 22% are yankees.]
That's a very creative definition of "majority", Jonathon. My dictionaries all say it means "more than half of the total", i.e. 50%+1. I believe the word you meant is "plurality", which means "the greatest number, but less than half of the total".
-- Jean
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