From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: Embedded Systems Survey
Date: 2000/08/03
Date: 2000-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Mgmi5.48$Me1.43795@news.pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2000Apr27.075813.1@eisner
> > You think there may be some way of getting an honest answer to the
> > question of how many developers prefer Ada for a given problem domain?
>
> No.
There's a nice trick for getting statistics on something people won't
tell you. Ask, for instance: "Think of a number between 1 and 10. If
your number is less than 5, or you prefer Ada, say Yes. If it's greater
than 5 and you don't like Ada, say No." Calibrate by asking another
group just the number part and not the Ada part, then the difference in
percentages tells you the percentage of people preferring Ada, without
telling about any particular person.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-26 0:00 Embedded Systems Survey Tucker Taft
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-04-26 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-27 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-04-26 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-27 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-04-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-27 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-03 0:00 ` tmoran [this message]
2000-08-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-08-04 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-08-04 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-07 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
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