Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 4:24 PM
> From: "Dmitry Gutov" <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> To: "Gregory Heytings" <ghe@sdf.org>
> Cc: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" <larsi@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
>
> On 16.12.2020 16:06, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I also think the poll is heavily biased in favor of either Reddit
> >> users (who are largely either power-users, or those who inspire to
> >> be), or experienced Emacs users in general.
> >>
> >
> > That's not factually correct.
> >
> > Only 1/3 of the respondents came from Reddit.
>
> Another 20% came from hacker news, and a bit more - from lobste.rs.
> While it's not a given that those respondents are as heavily into Emacs,
> those forums tend to feature power users as well. Regarding the rest, we
> don't really know.
>
> > And the number of years repondents have been using Emacs is for 1/3 less
> > than 4 years, for 1/3 between 4 and 12 years, and for 1/3 more than 12
> > years.
>
> So 70% of the respondents have been using Emacs for more than 4 years.
> I'd say that's pretty far into the "experienced user" category.
> Certainly not people who need to be told how to disable the toolbar, if
> they want to.
>
> And 70% of the respondents disable the toolbar. Might be a coincidence,
> but there is probably a high degree a correlation.
>

It's a big fuckup, particularly when these people continue to insist on their 
analysis when
the statistics of the data will be biased.  How can then people then expect to 
be taken
seriously!  Disregard the bad statistics so we can carry on with our argument 
is their mantra.