On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 20:42, David Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > I find it odd that some are inclined to discount the German > Wikipedia's poll on the basis that it reflects the views of editors > (as opposed to readers as a whole). Setting aside the general > public's ignorance of the WMF projects' core principles, let's keep in > mind that a category-based filter system would depend upon _editors_ > to function.
There are around 300M of readers and less than 30k of the extended poll of editors, which brings number of 0,01%. Thus, not just irrelevant, but much less than the margin of statistical error. Besides that, there is no valid explanation why such example would be a valid one for further statistical analysis. The questionnaire called "referendum" or "survey" is not even a survey, as survey assumes some methodology, which is around zero in this case. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
