On Sunday 2004.11.07 12:10:41 -0800, Asmus Freytag wrote: > At 08:29 PM 11/6/2004, Doug Ewell wrote: > >You've received nine public responses: one from a genuine font designer, > >two (or more, depending on interpretation) from people who have designed > >fonts at some time but don't identify themselves as "font designers," > >and the remainder from people who definitely aren't font designers. It > >would be disingenuous to suggest that the other 591+ list members who > >have not responded must therefore be font designers. > > But we got a glimpse of the diversity that's out there. >
While I agree that the glimpse of diversity that has been provided by respondants to this thread has been informative, the responses most definitely do not constitute a random sampling from a statistician's point of view. It would be interesting to know the true distribution, or a statistical approximation of the true distribution, of people on the list. I doubt we are going to get that, though.
