[WikiEN-l] Survey about paid editing

[David Gerard]

On 01/02/07, Gregory Kohs <thekohser at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm wondering what the opinions of "influential Wikipedians" are regarding
> this MSNBC poll that shows 40% of over a thousand people think like I do?
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16795533/


My opinion is that self-selected samples are statistically bogus and
inherently meaningless. In the press, they are mostly for amusement
value. See [[self-selection]].


- d.