From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<<
Date: 1999/02/12
Date: 1999-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7a1e6b$68e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 79urm0$f1o@drn.newsguy.com
In article <79urm0$f1o@drn.newsguy.com>,
kevin@nospamworld.com wrote:
> In article <36C2E425.D4A791E9@hercii.mar.lmco.com>, Jerry
> says...
> It is more than a guess. It is based on a small sampling
> I agree, but it is the same small sample used for C++
> also.
It's amazing what muddled thinking people have on such
statistic issues.
If you take a very small sample, which is almost certainly
not representative, and then extend an observation, which
even if the sample were representative would have limited
confidence, to a universal statement, then of *course*
it is a guess!
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-10 0:00 US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<< SDC
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Bob
1999-02-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Dino Gianisis
1999-02-10 0:00 ` kevin
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-02-11 0:00 ` kevin
1999-02-12 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-02-12 0:00 ` kevin
1999-02-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-12 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-14 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-12 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-13 0:00 ` whiter5195
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-11 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Dalen Kruse
1999-02-10 0:00 ` David Emery
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1999-02-10 0:00 ` bkwposx
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
[not found] ` <79v9f4$fe$1@remarq.com>
1999-02-11 0:00 ` fraser
1999-02-12 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-15 0:00 ` fraser
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Alan Hohn
1999-02-15 0:00 ` kevin
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Ada jobs & Programming: Art or Science? [was: MN] Alan Hohn
1999-02-16 0:00 ` kevin
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Alan Hohn
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Ada jobs & " robert_dewar
1999-02-17 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Michael Stark
1999-02-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-16 0:00 ` US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<< Tom Moran
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
1999-02-16 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-16 0:00 ` What Ada's used for (was: US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<<) dennison
1999-02-11 0:00 ` US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<< fraser
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Paul Whittington
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Dr Steve Sangwine
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-11 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-12 0:00 ` Gautier
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