On 28 September 2010 18:35, Ryan Lomonaco <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And even with it just being put forward as a second trial, the support > for > > continuing dropped 10% in two weeks. > > > > You're losing the hearts and minds battle here, guys. > > > > Risker/Anne > > > > I haven't followed the discussion at all, but I have two statistical > quibbles: First, characterizing a drop from 65 to 59% as a "10% drop" is > misleading - while (65-59)/65 is 10%, it's really a 6% drop. > That's 10% of the support that's disappeared in two weeks. > > Second, A drop from 65% to 59% is not very statistically significant. It > could very easily be explained if more of the people who voted against the > first time came back for the second vote. But even if both polls are a > representative sample of the English Wikipedia as a whole, both polls will > have a margin of error of a few percent. > Any "voting" type process on the English Wikipedia that garners participation from 500 users in a week is about as statistically significant as anything you're ever going to get. Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
