[141095] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Buhrmaster)
Fri Jun 3 01:24:36 2011
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=L1pdmxdCMQs+z656yjNsDNudAPw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:24:29 -0700
From: Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com>
To: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 21:42, Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote:
....>
> Pure speculation here, but these stats that you refer to are not a
> scientifically representative sample of the internet at large, this
> sample is a self selecting group of people who have chosen to run an
> ipv6 test.
Commonly called sample bias. Good statistical analysis will
address (and adjust for) such bias, but that can be (very) hard
work. As with all the "CNN polls", there should be a disclaimer
on such sites that say "this is not a scientific poll", but that
would ruin the fun.....
Gary
