[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[Pavlo Shevelo]

Well, well, well

> ... even if your
> observations are true

Not so bad for the beginning: you can suggest that my observations
might be correct.
By the way, when I wrote "Face the facts!" I meant (and still mean)
observations first of all.

> ... You are cynical, and ...
> your conclusions are wrong.

Would you please be so kind as to concentrate on weaknesses of my
conclusions, but not on you personal judgement about my personality?

I have doubts that you grasped my conclusions (maybe because I
missed/failed in clear explanation provisioning) so let me  put
everything once again:

1) Observation as survey (summary) of facts was (and still is):

Teenagers (age between 13-20 roughly) are most active in articles
about entertainment (movies, musical bands, computer games etc.) but
neither in articles on science & technology nor articles regarding
museums, literature (but Harry Potter and likes) etc.

As it could be easily seen (from all this discussion and beyond) it's
far not only my point.

2) Conclusion:
If we are serious in
"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
(are we?)
we should attract people of other (older) ages as they are able to
contribute that part of "sum of all knowledge" which is out of
teenager's activity focus right now.

What is wrong (and what is cynical, by the way) in that conclusion?
I'm not saying that this conclusion could not be wrong, but please be
specific versus just putting "Wrong!" label.

I'm aware that this conclusion could help (serve) only as part of
solution but not the complete solution.

So? :)

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Nikola Smolenski<smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:
> Дана Friday 24 July 2009 16:42:06 Pavlo Shevelo написа:
>> > Anyone else concerned by this line of reasoning? What happened to
>> > Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia anyone can edit?
>>
>> Nothing happened and we (at least talking about me) are only realistic
>> in analysis and straight in putting things as they are.
>> Face the reality. Period.
>> Nothing else.
>
> Well, I don't think you are realistic. You are cynical, and even if your
> observations are true, your conclusions are wrong.
>
>> > Pavlo Shevelo wrote:
>> >  > As a matter od fact teenagers contribute mainly to articles about
>> >  > sports, movies and other entertainment staff.
>> >  > Almost only exception is computers hardware and software stuff.
>
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