[Coco] Re: The typical CoCo user is aged...?!?

[Robert Gault]

Not trying to be argumentative here but with (a guess) between 10,000 to 
100,000 Cocos sold, how is 57 samples of a select rather than average 
group representative?

jdaggett at gate.net wrote:

> Robert 
> 
> With a sample size of 57 from the population of Coco users, one 
> can start to see some significant distribution of age within the  user 
> population. 32 would be a significant sample. 
> 
> One sample of an ever changing population is not a good indicator 
> of how the population is changing over time. This though is a good 
> indicator of what the age distributin is for this time and the current 
> known population.
> 
> james
> 
> On 1 Apr 2005 at 17:32, Robert Gault wrote:
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> Date sent:      	Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:32:44 -0500
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>>You can't draw statistically significant conclusions from limited
>>data?
>>
>>Torsten Dittel wrote:
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>>
>>>>Typically when you are trying to show a distribution with the
>>>>points seperated like that one broadens either the points or the
>>>>boxes.
>>>
>>>
>>>Could you explain that to an old geezer living in OpenGL space at
>>>the moment? :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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