RE: Poll > But it is not at all scientific. We have 250,000 downloads a week. In > a poll we get 25 answers, or 2500 answers or whatever. We have no way > of knowing whether or not the poll represents the Firebug users or > not. It's like take an international poll by walking out your front > door and asking your neighbors: the answers you get are just the > answers you get, it does not represent anyone other than the folks you > asked.
Your analogy is actually incorrect. Entirely incorrect. Were you to post a link to a poll on your home page and/or Mozilla project page then your cross sample of poll respondents could be reasonably assumed to be distributed more or less evenly amongst your user base. You are not, in the least, intentionally only polling a certain sector of users, like those local to your house--all of your users have internet access and a browser, by definition, and all have access to either your site or the Mozilla site. Regarding the true usefulness of the results, there is furthermore no need to guess. You can calculate the margin of error of your poll based on the number of results versus approximate number of users using standard statistical computations. Many poll sites will even provide a break down of poll respondents by country. > Plus there is no practical way to express choices easily for a poll. > The concerns of users are quite diverse. Even making questions that > most users would find interesting is difficult. I would disagree with that, but it seems this point is moot. If there is no interest in this, then so be it. Firebug users appreciate all of the work the team has put in and we realize that resources are limited as well. I agree that there would be a good bit of work involved in this and if it's not a priority, then that's OK. > You should be able to have one Firefox instance and two Firefox > windows with two Firebug windows. But that is theory, we don't test > this. Let us know. Appears to work thus far. Thank you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
