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| Author | Content |
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| golem Jan 07, 2008 6:14 AM EDT |
Thanks for the tip, but pointing to a poll from here is sure to bias the results. |
| Sander_Marechal Jan 07, 2008 7:47 AM EDT |
I doubt it, since Tectonic is pretty FOSS oriented itself. Just look at their newswire. There isn't a single non-FOSS story on their front page :-) |
| ComputerBob Jan 07, 2008 9:57 AM EDT |
I can see several disadvantages of believing the results of any such self-selected poll. But I'm curious about something: Does creating a poll have some advantage that I'm not seeing, over just reading Tectonic's server logs? |
| techiem2 Jan 07, 2008 10:01 AM EDT |
Quoting:Does creating a poll have some advantage that I'm not seeing, over just reading Tectonic's server logs? Server logs aren't accurate as many people change their browser's User Agent (the browser name/version/etc.) to something other than what it really is. Especially people who need to visit "IE Only" sites that check the UA and reject you if it doesn't report IE (never mind that the site may work perfectly well in Firefox/Opera/whatever). Other than that...I suppose a poll increase page hits... |
| gus3 Jan 07, 2008 10:04 AM EDT |
Quoting:Does creating a poll have some advantage that I'm not seeing, over just reading Tectonic's server logs?Not only what techiem2 said, but also that one person reading the whole site with Opera, and another reading just one article with Firefox, would show results skewed towards Opera. And, Tectonic may not keep that info in the server logs. |
| ComputerBob Jan 07, 2008 10:54 AM EDT |
Then wouldn't the poll results be more accurate if only those people who were already visiting the Tectonic site were asked to take the poll? In other words, if the point of the poll is to find out which browser Tectonic's visitors use, then it seems counterproductive to ask people at this site to go to theTectonic web site to "vote" for the browser that they're using, instead of just posting the poll on the Tectonic site and letting Tectonic's normal visitors vote in it. Or am I missing something important here? |
| techiem2 Jan 07, 2008 10:58 AM EDT |
Well, some of us only read Tectonic articles that are posted here..... *shrug* |
| hkwint Jan 07, 2008 1:00 PM EDT |
Quoting:Not only what techiem2 said, but also that one person reading the whole site with Opera, and another reading just one article with Firefox, would show results skewed towards Opera. Now, that would give interesting statistics: How many percent of the people vote for a browser they are not using at that particular moment? |
| Sander_Marechal Jan 07, 2008 1:49 PM EDT |
Polls are always skewed. The main benefit of this poll is probably to compare it to a previous poll and find trends. You can't trust the absolute numbers that come out of them. |
| hkwint Jan 07, 2008 1:59 PM EDT |
OK, now I get it, they're just proud only 1% of their readers use IE and want to show off! |
| moopst Jan 07, 2008 6:28 PM EDT |
CB: If I had read the article at work my user agent would read IE on XP, but my honest answer would be Konqueror with Firefox on Linux as a close second. |
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