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From: ka@socrates.hr.att.com (Kenneth Almquist)
Subject: Re: No top schools use Ada
Date: 1995/04/19
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I wrote:
>> The use of C, however, is statisticly significant (P <= 0.05, barely).

It appears that CMU uses C++ rather than C.  Statistical significance goes
out the window.

> Any discussion of statistical significance here is meaningless without
> stating the number of subjects of interest, ie, the Sample Size.

That's why I was careful to write:
>> The fact that none of the nine schools listed by Jay Martin use Ada...
                             ^^^^
					Kenneth Almquist