GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> writes:
Please explain why the selection of only Skype/VOIP
users would be
such a bad thing.
I agree that a study on Skype/VoIP users and their Wikipedia use could
be interesting in itself. But I think it is wrong to assume that
Skype/VoIP users necessarily is a representative selection of
Wikipedia users overall.
I could guess that they are slightly more unafraid of new technology
than the average Wikipedian. Perhaps they have a higher number of
foreign associates that they corresponds with regularly. Maybe they
have an lower salary (since they invest hours of testing and
experimenting to save relatively small amounts) - or maybe a higher
(since they are successful at installing new technology)? I don't
know. This could be an interesting study in itself.
My point is that this kind of pre-selection most likely will introduce
a bias into the results in one way or another.
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Dag Asheim
Linpro AS