It is highly suspicious to me, when I look at such a list and cannot immediately understand what metrics are used and how the data was gathered. I was hoping to find some reference to what the data meant, but could not find it. Given the highly charged and speculative nature of the subject matter, it smells real bad. Given the recent spate of revelations of medical journals publishing unreproducable experiments, I don't care how many journalists refer to this organization -- in my eyes, that's just appealing to authority and does not give them any real credibility.
Alexey ________________________________ From: Casper Bang <[email protected]> To: The Java Posse <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, February 10, 2011 11:52:04 AM Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: No, Joe, Oracle/Google is *NOT* the same as Sun/Microsoft. > it looks like a lot of their data is based on web polls > of site visitors. Does this really pass for science now?! You refer to the visitor poll on the front page, that's not associated with any one country? The one that states "Transparency International online Polls are not statistically valid representations of our website users nor intend to guide or represent public opinion in any way."? As for the country associated data points, I have no opinion on that which differs from other indices (TIOBE...) or academic paper (today red wine causes cancer, tomorrow it's coffee...). But to suggest it's based on polls is probably stretching it a bit, considering how often TI are used by various news media. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
