 ArchAngel21xWaiting For iPhone 5Premium
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Re: Only From These Idiots... And including people who don't have PCs is beneficial how? That's probably the main reason the stats are so screwed up. I can say on average smoking does not harm a person's health and not include the fact that I involved everyone in the world regardless if they actually smoke or not. That would make as much nonsense as these stats. If they wanted accuracy, they should have started by taking into account only people with Internet access.
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hiatus | said by ArchAngel21x:
If they wanted accuracy, they should have started by taking into account only people with Internet access.
Information exists in far more diverse forms that digital data that is on the internet. An understanding of that basic fact seems to escape you based on your post.
For example, if I write a page of prose, I have created about a 1kB of data. Hell, Shakespeare in his lifetime probably wrote several HUNDRED MBs of data.
The data they are measuring is NOT isolated to the internet.
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ArchAngel21xWaiting For iPhone 5Premium
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said by ArchAngel21x:
If they wanted accuracy, they should have started by taking into account only people with Internet access.
Information exists in far more diverse forms that digital data that is on the internet. An understanding of that basic fact seems to escape you based on your post.
said by karl:
Stats are pretty skewed when you consider they looked at the world's population, most of whom don't have computers....
If that's true then Karl also didn't understand that and he posted the article. Fo figure.
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hiatus | said by ArchAngel21x:
If that's true then Karl also didn't understand that and he posted the article. Fo figure.
First, it is true. Limiting it the computers and the internet would then make it a "worthless statistic". Information production is inherently multi-media. Think of the 4GB DVD or LP (record) you own, that's information (although redundant because its based on gigabytes more film, etc).
Secondly, I can not verify Karl's understanding of that concept simply because I am not Karl.
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Secondly, I can not verify Karl's understanding of that concept simply because I am not Karl.
Then I would like to take it a step further and say that you can not verify my understanding, or lack of, because you are not me, and leave it at that.
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No, I understand it as I actually READ the whole report. I'm just suggesting that PC users likely generate far more data....
You apply that average across a world population that consists of a lot of people working for virtually no money toiling in fields, and how much new information do you think these people create? Text, digital, or otherwise?
Not much....
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hiatus | reply to ArchAngel21x
said by ArchAngel21x:
Then I would like to take it a step further and say that you can not verify my understanding, or lack of, because you are not me, and leave it at that.
To cap this line off... It is possible to gauge your understanding because of what you posted. You said clearly and distinctly how you understood the article. Karl on the other hand made no such stance. You gave us the information we needed to gauge your understanding, Karl did not.
We could run around in circles, but at this point its better just to leave this as is.
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