Snowballs in hell? Or...?

[Darrel Lawrence]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:36:16PM -0800, Ray Simard wrote:
  
> "A recent Microsoft-sponsored study by researcher IDC 

Hmm, Microsoft sponsers a study, and it comes out portraying
MS products in a favorable light.  I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to
find GAMBLING going on in this establishment.  

Statistics can be used to prove or disprove just about anything you
want.  Check out the excellent book, "How to Lie With Statistics"
by Darrell Huff and Irving Geis.  Microsoft-sponsored automatically
disqualifies the study from being relevant to anything other
than Microsoft Marketing.

-Darrel

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