• atzanteol
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    6 months ago

    A method that attempts to collect data from a randomized or representative population rather than relying on self-report.

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      6 months ago

      The fact that you need consent to get this data would make a randomized approach impossible.

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        6 months ago

        Yes. It just may be possible that accurate poll data on such things isn’t possible.

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          canonical has been doing this for years too, and a significant portion of linux users are on ubuntu. i’m not sure if a good portion of users enable it though.

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        I don’t have one. WTF? You expect that I should be able to propose a way of gathering accurate data just because I can see obvious flaws in their polling methodology?